Some media attention was given to the distant fly-by of asteroid (1566) Icarus. Although the event in itself posed no collision threat whatsoever,Icarus is indeed an interesting object for the history of NEOs.

November 2022 Newsletter

The month of December this year marks the fifth anniversary of the launch of ESA’s Gaia spacecraft. The mission, now operating continuously near the Earth-Sun L2 Lagrangian point, has already revolutionized many fields of astronomy, thanks to the broad and exquisite quality of the data it is producing.

January 2023 Newsletter

February 2024 Newsletter

On 25 March 2015 our website experienced unusually high traffic for a few hours, seven times above our average rate. We tracked this boost of popularity to some news about the flyby of asteroid 2014 YB35 that were circulating on the web around that time.