Introduction Hera is ESA's first planetary defense mission designed to characterize the binary near-Earth asteroid (65803) Didymos [1]. Its secondary component, Dimorphos, was the target of the large-scale controlled collision with the NASA/DART spacecraft in September 2022 [2]. Thus, the Hera mission will provide an unprecedented opportunity to

On 26 September 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission impacted Dimorphos, the moonlet of near-earth asteroid 65803 Didymos, performing the world's first planetary defence test. ESA's Hera mission will be launched in October 2024 and rendezvous with the Didymos system end of 2026 or beginning of 2027. It will closely

Time-domain astrophysics continues to grow rapidly, with the inception of new surveys drastically increasing data volumes. Democratized, distributed approaches to training sets for machine learning classifiers are crucial to make the most of this torrent of discovery - with citizen science approaches proving effective at meeting these requirements

Context. The transit technique has been very efficient over the past decades in detecting planet-candidate signals. The so-called statistical validation approach has become a popular way of verifying a candidate's planetary nature. However, the incomplete consideration of false-positive scenarios and data quality can lead to misinterpretation of

Introduction The cosine* HyperScout-H (HS-H) instrument will fly aboard the ESA/Hera spacecraft. This mission [1], focused on planetary defense, aims to thoroughly characterize the (65803) Didymos near-Earth binary asteroid following the impact of the NASA/DART mission. It will launch in October 2024 and it is expected to reach the target by

The ionisation cones of NGC 5728 have a deficit of molecular gas based on millimetre observations of CO (2-1) emission. Although photoionisation from the active nucleus may lead to suppression of this transition, warm molecular gas can still be present. We report the detection of eight mid-infrared rotational H 2 lines throughout the central