On February 15, 2013, a flash lit up the winter sky over Chelyabinsk, Russia. Thirteen years later, the lessons of that event continue to shape how the world approaches asteroid risk—and why sustained education and innovation in planetary defense remain essential. That morning, a small asteroid...
Asteroids streak across this Rubin Observatory image of the Virgo Cluster, visible as tri-colored trails created by their motion across repeated exposures. Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA Several current and former members of the Asteroid Institute team contributed to research published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters examining early...
The Asteroid Institute has officially launched the Asteroid Discovery Analysis and Mapping (ADAM) Online Platform to the general public, opening up a powerful suite of astrodynamics tools to researchers, mission planners, and others. For the first time, users can access services such as Precovery, Impact...
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – July 22, 2025 /PRnewswire/ – The Asteroid Institute, a program of B612 Foundation, today announced the launch of ADAM::Trajectory. This new service, running on Google Cloud, allows users to calculate trajectories and propulsion requirements between any two objects in the solar...
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCEC4EaY00Q&t[/embedyt] Twelve years ago, on February 15, 2013, the world received an undeniable wake-up call about the dangers posed by near-Earth asteroids. Without warning, a 18-meter asteroid streaked across the sky before exploding over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk. The resulting shockwave damaged over 7,200...
Asteroid Institute engineers presented online at this year’s Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) conference, held in November. The ADASS conference serves as a premier forum for exchanging ideas on software development and data analysis within the astronomical community. The institute’s Head of Software Engineering,...
With advanced computational methods, the companies scanned billions of detections, discovering within weeks as many asteroids as were found worldwide in an entire year MILL VALLEY and SUNNYVALE, Calif., – April 30, 2024 - Asteroid Institute, a program of B612 Foundation, and Google Cloud today announced...
This past Asteroid Day (observed on June 30th worldwide) we celebrated B612’s 20th Anniversary and the launch of the Schweickart Prize at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. The prize, named in honor of renowned Apollo 9 astronaut and B612 co-founder Rusty Schweickart...
This fall, the Asteroid Institute (a program of B612) partnered with the University of California Berkeley’s Data Science Discovery Program and three of their undergraduate students to work on real-life problems that ultimately enhanced aspects of our Asteroid Discovery Analysis and Mapping (ADAM) platform. Tanay Bhadra,...
Summer Interns Enrich Asteroid Institute Crew This past summer, Asteroid Institute (a program of B612) in partnership with the University of Washington, hosted a group of seven interns who helped with an assortment of tasks, including data ingestion for our Asteroid Discovery Analysis and Mapping (ADAM)...