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- Ramses: ESA’s mission to rendezvous with asteroid Apophis 2025-10-13Video: 00:01:33 Friday the 13th of April 2029 will be our lucky day.Apophis, a 375-metre-wide asteroid, will safely pass Earth at a distance of less than 32 000 kilometres. For a few hours, Apophis will be closer than satellites in geostationary orbit and visible to the naked eye from Europe and Africa.Space agencies have sent a number of spacecraft to asteroids, but we have never had a mission at an […]
- Swarm reveals growing weak spot in Earth’s magnetic field 2025-10-13Using 11 years of magnetic field measurements from the European Space Agency’s Swarm satellite constellation, scientists have discovered that the weak region in Earth’s magnetic field over the South Atlantic – known as the South Atlantic Anomaly – has expanded by an area nearly half the size of continental Europe since 2014.
- Week in images: 06-10 October 2025 2025-10-10Week in images: 06-10 October 2025 Discover our week through the lens