January 2019
Visiting an asteroid to find out how life began
.... Makoto is additionally interested in the issue of planetary defence, which concerns potential Earth impacts from celestial bodies. He is a member of the NEO (Near Earth Object) working group in the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs, and was one...
April 2019
Cleaning up space
... for commercial missions involving rendezvous, proximity operations and orbital servicing. Delegates at a threeday international Near-Earth Object (NEO) and Debris Detection Conference held at ESA’s ESOC centre in Germany this January. Business...
26 August 2015
No, an asteroid isn’t about to strike Puerto Rico in September, NASA says
... that even NASA has stepped into the fray. NASA’s Near-Earth Object office has been prompted to speak to the press about how... while NASA is stressing that no “known object” is about to hit Earth. The great thing about conspiracy theories is that...
03 February 2016
Luxembourg announces plan to mine asteroids
... satellite firms, SES. Luxembourg now aims to help establish a space industry by mining ‘near-Earth objects’ (NEOs) for their metal and rare-Earth material content by collaborating with US and European commercial partners. Mining asteroids may appear...
20 January 2017
Winners and potential losers of the Obama and Trump administrations
... the NSF/DOE Large Synoptic Survey Telescope); enhancing prediction of and preparedness for space hazards, notably Near Earth Objects (NEOs) and space weather; and harnessing the small satellite revolution. At present, it is too early to tell what...
14 August 2019
Protesters block asteroid detection safety work
... Crater in the US state of Arizona was 40 to 50 km in diameter. Shortly after confirmation of 2006 QV89, the Center for Near Earth Object Studies at the NASA-funded Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California announced what everyone wanted to hear: the...
