27 August 2015
No, an asteroid isn’t about to strike Puerto Rico in September, NASA says
... – that an asteroid or any other celestial object will impact Earth.” Meteor impacts, meanwhile, can sometimes be unexpected. This is how we wound up with the Chelyabinsk meteor debacle, for example. Of course, the rumours are claiming that the...
24 March 2016
Cygnus Cargo Spacecraft Successfully Launched
... fire on an exploration craft. Some of the other planned experiments are: the meteor-tracking experiment (first space-based observations of meteors entering Earth's atmosphere); the Strata-I experiment (exploring regolith properties in microgravity...
July 2014
Preventing catastrophic impact
A the end of the last century it was conclusively shown that a collision with an asteroid or a comet could lead to a partial or even total destruction of our planet’s biosphere. Collisions in space of various near- Earth objects (or NEOs) are ...
June 2015
Finding asteroids before they find us
... moving objects and mapping the trajectories of asteroids to see if any could have our name on them. A recurrence of Meteor Crater, Arizona, is what the B612 Foundation hopes to avoid. “We’ve been given a gift, and the gift is that...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
...). Other workshops have been held in Canyonlands, Utah, the Crimea, Yellowstone Park, the Grand Canyon and Meteor Crater, Arizona, and so on; nearly all ‘planetary analogues’. In a sense, they are following in the footsteps of the artists...
February 2017
Growing space agency dilemma
... cosmic hazards, and even more lacking in their ability to provide protection to humanity. How a six-mile-wide meteor might appear seconds before impacting Earth. So what should the space agencies of the world be doing? The...
