Asteroid 2018 LA hit the Earth’s atmosphere and exploded over Botswana this past weekend, and for only the third time an impact was predicted ahead of time. Our planet’s asteroid tracking and early warning system working together were able to detect this asteroid and determine it...
Asteroid Institute funded project releases NASA tech note with support from Planet, JPL, and CalTech describing an asteroid detection demo using synthetic tracking technology was recently published. This is the first time this synthetic tracking technique has been used for the purpose of asteroid detection...
[caption id="attachment_23849" align="alignnone" width="860"] REUTERS/Copyright 2013 EUMETSAT/Handout[/caption] Scientists have begun piecing together the characteristics of the meteor that exploded over Russia on the morning of February 15, using data from seismic instruments that track earthquakes and microphones designed to detect sonic booms from nuclear explosions. Unlike...
This week, a hunk of space rock half the size of a football field will pass historically close to us, between Earth and our communication satellites. Scientists are certain the asteroid, dubbed 2012 DA14, will not hit Earth. If it did, the resulting explosion would...
Who will protect us from a killer asteroid? A team of ex-NASA astronauts and scientists thinks it's up to them. In a bold plan unveiled Thursday, the group wants to launch its own space telescope to spot and track small and mid-sized space rocks capable of...
San Francisco, CA, June 28, 2012 In a press conference at the California Academy of Sciences Thursday morning, the B612 Foundation unveiled its plans to build, launch, and operate the first privately funded deep space mission – SENTINEL – a space telescope to be placed in...