Asteroid Institute Announces Program with York Space Systems to Explore Low-Cost Space-Based Asteroid Tracking System and Train Next Generation Space Workforce at Metropolitan State University of Denver SILICON VALLEY, CA (May 10, 2018)-- The Asteroid Institute, a program of the B612 Foundation, has announced a new collaboration with York...
B612 does not endorse the alarming and sensationalist tone (“humankind could be wiped out at any moment”) of an article it contributed to last week. This is completely contrary to B612’s message that we and others are working towards addressing this issue in a methodical way...
Earlier today, the Asteroid Institute issued a press release announcing Google Cloud and AGI among its new technology partners for the ADAM project. This is an important moment in developing a cloud-based platform to provide analytical tools to help scientists, world leaders, and citizens understand...
Ed Lu, Asteroid Institute Executive Director, was interviewed on CNN about asteroid awareness and planetary defense. Check it out to see him discuss humanity's current detection capability, recent impacts, and how B612 is working to solve the problem. (NOTE: This video is unavailable on Chrome...
Today marks the five-year anniversary of the meteor that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia. That meteor surprised the world, including the astronomical community. I’m sure you remember the footage from that day. On February 15, 2013 that small asteroid - approximately 20 meters in diameter -...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The fireball that streaked through the Michigan sky put on quite a show but as far as potentially killer space rocks, it was merely a flash in the pan. There are much bigger asteroids careening through our solar system. Scientists who watch for...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" css=".vc_custom_1512558657854{margin-top: 50px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text]This year marked a 15-year milestone since we began protecting the Earth from asteroid impacts. With the support of a worldwide community of donors, B612 has educated, advocated, and worked towards science and technology solutions...
B612 Asteroid Institute Studies and Provides Data to 'Oumuamua Discovery [caption id="attachment_24497" align="aligncenter" width="550"] Illustration Credit: European Southern Observatory, M. Kornmesser[/caption] SAN FRANCISCO, CA (December 5, 2017) -- Within days of the announcement by NASA's Minor Planet Center of the discovery of the first-ever interstellar object, 'Oumuamua,...
Harold Reitsema, Asteroid Institute Mission Director, looks at the updated 2017 report from NASA on the threat from near-Earth objects (NEOs). NASA's Near-Earth Object Science Definition Team has released an update to a previous report on the threat posed by near-Earth objects that was released in 2003[1]. This report provides a more thorough...
Bryce Bolin, Senior Researcher at B612's Asteroid Institute, discusses 1I/'Oumuamua, the first interstellar asteroid discovery, and how the Asteroid Institute team is studying it. 'Oumuamua Mia! [caption id="attachment_24498" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Illustration Credit: European Southern Observatory, M. Kornmesser[/caption] More than three weeks ago on October 18, 2017, the first interstellar object...