In 1990, a NASA scientist named David Morrison wanted to know his chances of being killed by an asteroid. It seemed a bit paranoid. After all, no one had ever been killed that way, and there was only one documented meteorite injury. In 1954, an Alabama...
Sergey Khaibrakhmanov was sleeping when he heard the explosion. Startled, his heart already pounding, he jumped awake in bed. What the hell was that? It was loud, whatever it was, enough to shake the apartment and scare him half to death. Did a plane just crash? He...
A note from Ed: I wanted to give a big thank you to NOVA for highlighting the need to find and track asteroids. Everyone here at the B612 Foundation is grateful to have had this national attention, and the opportunity to explain our work to millions...
The asteroid that exploded over Siberia—injuring more than 1,000 and damaging buildings in six cities—was a shocking reminder that Earth is a target in a cosmic shooting range. From the width of a football field to the size of a small city, these space rocks...
When an asteroid exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk in February, shattering windows for miles and injuring well over 1,000 people, experts said it was a rare event — of a magnitude that might occur only once every 100 to 200 years, on average. But...
[caption id="attachment_615" align="alignright" width="485"] A hole blasted through the ice of Lake Chebarkul, southwest of Chelyabinsk, Russia, by a meteorite. Credit: Eduard Kalinin[/caption] In a special interview for the NYT, Dr. Ed Lu, former NASA space shuttle astronaut who heads the B612 Foundation, says that only...
When a meteor exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia in February, the world’s space agencies found out along with the rest of us, on Twitter and YouTube. That, says former astronaut Ed Lu, is unacceptable—and the United Nations agrees. Last week the General Assembly approved a set...
NEW YORK — Members of the United Nations met with distinguished astronauts and cosmonauts this week in New York to begin implementing the first-ever international contingency plan for defending Earth against catastrophic asteroid strikes. Six of the space travelers involved in these U.N. discussions spoke about...
NEW YORK — Members of the United Nations met with distinguished astronauts and cosmonauts this week in New York to begin implementing the first-ever international contingency plan for defending Earth against catastrophic asteroid strikes. Six of the space travelers involved in these U.N. discussions discussed the...