A potentially hazardous asteroid once found but then lost has been rediscovered and its orbit confirmed by a determined amateur astronomer working with ESA's space hazards programme. The...

ESA’s Planetary Defence Office has just released a new NEOCC web portal

Every few hours observing the Moon, ESA’s ‘NELIOTA’ project discovers a brilliant flash of light across its surface – the result of an object hurtling through space and striking our unprotected...

NEOCC observations help in nailing down the orbit of 2021 PH27

Possible extension for the Hayabusa2 mission

While the sky becomes more and more continuously scanned by ground and space-based NEO surveys, discovering objects in unusual orbital configurations represents the new frontier. Their dynamics...

New observations of asteroid Apophis rule out any chance of impact for at least a century

Soon after having been spotted in the sky on 8 October 2013 from the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory (Ukraine), asteroid 2013TV135 topped the Risk Page. Being a relatively large object (500 m in...

The fly-by of 2020 QG asteroid

Detecting an asteroid beyond telescope normal operation