Bad news, earthlings. A former NASA scientist says it’s mere happenstance that an Armageddon-style asteroid hasn’t hit a densely populated area in the last few years. On Tuesday, the B612 Foundation, which is devoted to preventing the next deep impact, will present data from a nuclear-weapons...
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...
B612 Impact Video 4-20-14 H264 from Spine Films on Vimeo. Watch Translations of the video in Spanish or Cantonese. Between 2000 and 2013, a network of sensors that monitors Earth around the clock listening for the infrasound signature of nuclear detonations detected 26 explosions on Earth ranging in energy from 1...
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...
American indie rock band Broken Bells will donate $1 from every ticket sold for their upcoming tour to help protect its fans from asteroids. The band is looking to accomplish this by working together with the B612 Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to that exact...
Broken Bells—the indie rock super duo of Shins frontman James Mercer and producer Danger Mouse—are passionate about saving the Earth from outer space threats to human existence. They’ve announced that for every ticket sold for their upcoming West Coast tour, they’ll donate $1 to the...
Can music save us from asteroids? American Indie band Broken Bells certainly hope so. In fact, they're so wary of the threat posed by Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHA's) that they're pledging to donate $1 of every ticket they sell for their upcoming tour, to the...
Renowned indie rockers Broken Bells have announced that they are partnering with the B612 Foundation starting with their April West Coast tour. For the duration of their tour, $1 from every concert ticket sold will be donated to help fund B612’s Sentinel Mission of protecting...
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...