B612 Foundation Releases Video at Seattle Museum of Flight Earth Day Event Showing Evidence of 26 Multi-Kiloton Asteroid Impacts Since 2001 SEATTLE, WA (Earth Day, April 22, 2014) -- At a press conference on Tuesday at the Seattle Museum of Flight, three prominent astronauts supporting the...
Watch and share the video below showing just how often Earth is hit by untracked asteroids....
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden told members of Congress that if an asteroid the size that could wipe out any major city were headed to Earth today, all we could do is “pray.” Ed Lu testifies about the B612 Sentinel Mission solution to protect Earth for...
So you know how we all kind of thought that our odds of getting destroyed by an asteroid were remarkably low? Yeah, that was wrong. According to new research, the odds of a large-scale asteroid impact are actually three to ten times higher than we...
Former Astronaut Ed Lu thinks the biggest threat to our existence is up in the air. Way up in the air. His nonprofit, the B612 Foundation, wants to set up a defense perimeter around the planet. Read the Article: "This Ex-Astronaut Is Stalking Asteroids to Save...
A CNN special feature on the “Next List” of leaders with Ed Lu: One man’s bold quest to save the world from Asteroids – the biggest environmental project imaginable. Read the Article: "Close Shave: Asteroid To Buzz Earth Next Week" CNN (February 12, 2013) ...
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...
As someone who’s taken a fair share of science classes, I know that it can be difficult to tie the daily homework assignments of configuring compounds in chemistry or calculating velocity in physics to a broader world perspective. But that’s precisely what science does: It...