February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
...-profit foundation with headquarters in the United States and dedicated to planetary defence against asteroids and other NEOs) is building its Sentinel spacecraft. Both of these infrared telescope satellites could greatly increase our ability to spot...
August 2016
Commercial space development spurs trend for public-private collaboration
... in their mutual interest to increase detection and characterisation of asteroids. NASA has a mandate to find Near-Earth Objects (NEO), and Planetary Resources is looking to learn more about asteroids that may be of material value. The actual method...
October 2021
Congested, contested... under-regulated and unplanned
... efficient searches for targets such as near-Earth objects (NEOs) and exoplanets. With the simultaneous increase in satellite numbers... image are much higher. The exact risk we face from NEOs is uncertain, since our census of the smaller objects that ...
30 June 2017
A line up of global events for Asteroid Day 2017
...-on approach for dealing with the threat of a collision by a near-Earth object (NEOs) and has started to build a co-ordination centre in Paris where data on NEOs is available to European researchers and the public alike. “At ESA, we want to observe...
20 November 2020
The iconic Arecibo Observatory to be demolished due to safety concerns
... research into brown dwarfs, locating near-Earth objects (NEOs) understanding pulsars and helping to refine fundamental theories of... dish is also used by NASA to characterise known NEOs. Sadly, despite its world-wide, multidisciplinary use and...
February 2016
Searching for water in the Solar System
... are believed to have trapped a large number of planetesimals that travelled the Solar System early on. In 2010 the NEO-WISE telescope discovered one of these Earth’s Trojan asteroids (2010 TK7). These asteroids are interesting not...
