Artist’s concept of Lucy spacecraft at Trojan asteroid. Credit: NASA. Asteroids are much more than left-over remnants of planetary formation, they could be the keys to the future economy. A…
Not all asteroids live inside the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. ESA’s Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre lists more than 25,000 that are classified as near-Earth objects (NEOs). Of these,…
As 2019 turned to 2020, Asteroid Day was embarking on a new journey. We hired a full-time Program Director and moved her out to Luxembourg. We began planning our events…
Martin Rees is a Fellow of Trinity College and Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge. He holds the honorary title of Astronomer Royal and also Visiting…
Franz Fayot is the Minister for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs and the Minister of the Economy for the Luxembourg government. A member of the Luxembourg Socialist Workers’ Party (LSAP)…