WASHINGTON — A nonprofit organization says it is continuing efforts to develop a space telescope to search for near-Earth asteroids despite fundraising challenges and a recent NASA decision to ...

The California-based B612 Foundation has released a video displaying the distribution of 26 multi-kiloton asteroid impacts known to have struck the Earth since the year 2000. Many of the impacts – ...

B612 Foundation announced the recipient of the annual Schweickart Prize. This year's honor goes to a proposal calling for ...

SAN FRANCISCO, June 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- B612 Foundation today announced the recipient of the annual Schweickart Prize, a program that recognizes original student proposals seeking to advance ...

How do you divert a potentially threatening asteroid? One of the suggested scenarios is to station a “gravity tractor” near the asteroid so that the gravitational interaction gradually shifts the ...

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The B612 Foundation today announced the formation of a new science and technology institute dedicated to protecting Earth from asteroid impacts. Dr. Ed Lu, three time US astronaut and Co-founder of ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- One could make the case that the biggest threat isn't something on Earth, but something hitting the Earth, according to Ed Lu, a former NASA astronaut and chairman of the B612 ...

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