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‘Killer’ asteroid headed our way! When to fear space rocks 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 2, 2021
On Asteroid Day, a reminder. The ones to worry about are almost never the ones in the alarmist headlines.

By David Aragorn
“Space is for everyone”: Europe’s Space Agency to hire first disabled astronaut 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 2, 2021
The European Space Agency hopes to hire and launch the world’s first physically disabled astronaut and several hundred would-be para-astronauts have already applied for the role, ESA head Josef Aschbacher told Reuters on Friday.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers release new all-sky map of Milky Way’s outer reaches 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 1, 2021
The highlight of the new chart is a wake of stars, stirred up by a small galaxy set to collide with the Milky Way. The map could also offer a new test of dark matter theories.

By David Aragorn
ESA Is Going To Spend $102 Million To Remove a Single Piece of Space Junk 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 28, 2020
How much would you be willing to spend to remove a piece of space debris? Does $102 million sound like enough? That is how much a contract between the European Space Agency (ESA) and a Swiss start-up named ClearSpace SA is worth, and the entire contract is to simply remove a single piece of space debris.

By David Aragorn
European Space Agency finalises plans to ‘explore the moon properly’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 14, 2020
Ambitious series of joint missions aims to construct a crewed space station that will orbit the moon

By David Aragorn
ESA Releases Solar Orbiter’s First Science Data 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 2, 2020
ESA’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft, in collaboration with NASA, launched in February 2020 on its mission to study to Sun and it began collecting science data in June. Now, three of its ten instruments — the Energetic Particle Detector (EPD), the Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) instrument, and the Magnetometer (MAG) — have released their first science data, revealing the state of our star in a ‘quiet’ phase.

By David Aragorn
ESA’s Hera planetary defense mission signs prime contractor, on course for launch in 2024 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 16, 2020
The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed a design, manufacturing, and testing contract with OHB of Germany for their Hera planetary defense mission, marking a major advancement toward the agency’s commitment to NASA for their joint Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment project.

By David Aragorn
The closest images of the sun ever taken reveal ‘campfire’ flares 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 16, 2020
New pictures are the first from the Solar Orbiter spacecraft

By David Aragorn
Universe may not be expanding the same way in all directions, new Nasa and ESA study suggests, challenging fundamental idea of cosmology 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 9, 2020
‘This would contradict one of the most basic underlying assumptions we use in cosmology today’

By David Aragorn
Nasa and ESA find ‘cosmic killer’ black hole that could solve mystery 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 4, 2020
Newly-discovered black hole could be the long hoped-for ‘missing link’

By David Aragorn