The tools are briefly introduced in the ESA asteroid toolkit: how to guide. However, to learn more about some of the tools and how to use them effectively, please refer to the videos provided...

ESA’s NEO Coordination Centre celebrates its 10th anniversary

Several mission opportunities to close-approach asteroids up to 2040

The GTC telescope helps in largely decreasing the threat of 2023 TB2.

The Planetary Defence community has detected the eighth asteroid impactor

An automated procedure for Yarkovsky effect determination developed by NEOCC

The Planetary Defence community has detected the fifth asteroid impactor

The atmospheric impact of this 1-metre object has been observed as a fireball from UK, France, Belgium and the Netherlands

For the third time in recent history of asteroid detection a NEO was detected a few hours before it entered the Earth atmosphere (the two previous cases were 2008 TC3 and 2014 AA). Asteroid 2018 LA...

ESA’s TBT2 survey telescope discovers its first Near Earth Asteroid

NEOCC’s NEO Toolkit is enhanced with the SOVT

What can we learn from close approachers?

Fireballs and bright meteors are small-sized NEOs, typically centimetres to metres in diameter, that collide with the Earth. They are sufficiently small to disintegrate almost completely in the...

Near-Earth Object Population Observation Program (NEOPOP) During activities related to ESA's Space-Situational Awareness (SSA) programme, the need for an observation system simulation software tool...