SAN FRANCISCO — Humanity can dramatically reduce its frightening vulnerability to cataclysmic asteroid strikes with just a little extra funding and a little extra effort. That's the main message of "Asteroid Day," an educational campaign that launched today (Dec. 3) at a joint news conference held...
The guitarist, songwriter and founding member of British rock band Queen is also an astrophysicist. On Wednesday, Brian May joined scientists and astronauts in a joint press conference in San Francisco and London to present the 100x Asteroid Declaration and to announce Asteroid Day. The...
Astronomers and rockstars alike are joining forces to warn the world of the threat posed to the planet by asteroids. More than 100 leading scientists and astronauts from Dr Brian May to Chris Hadfield have signed a declaration asking for increased action to tackle objects that...
Asteroids could wipe out humanity unless more effort is made to track and destroy them, a leading body of scientists and astronauts has warned. Lord Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal, Brian Cox, and Richard Dawkins are among more than 100 experts calling for the creation of...
The NASA inspector general (IG) recently excoriated the agency’s Near-Earth Object (NEO) Program, finding that the effort to locate potentially Earth-threatening asteroids and comets was poorly resourced and far behind its mandated detection goals. In 2005 Congress tasked NASA with locating 90 percent of NEOs...
The goal of the B612 Foundation is to protect the Earth from Asteroid impacts. We remain strongly committed to achieving this goal. Asteroids like the one that struck in Tunguska in 1908 (45 meters) are large enough to cause enormous damage and loss of life. We have...
Life before the Apocalypse at 51˚ North ‘This is a very different kind of disaster movie. No Bruce Willis here, to save life on Earth from extinction. This is a movie to change perspectives – and now that we realise the high probability of such a...
Keith Cowing, Blogger for NASAWatch.com shares his opinion of NASA's recent decision to terminate the Space Act Agreement with the B612 Foundation. Read the Article: NASA Terminates Space Act Agreement with B612 Foundation for Sentinel Spacecraft...
If you've ever stopped to peer with suspicion at the sky, wondering how that would go, a mammoth piece of space rock on its way in to bring ruin, the last two years have not been especially restful. In February 2013, a large asteroid ripped...
It started with a flash. At a few minutes past 9:00, one crystalline morning last February, a burst of light brighter than 30 suns illuminated Chelyabinsk, Russia, a southern industrial city known mostly for making tractors. Thanks to smartphones, surveillance cameras, and Russian auto-dash cams, we...