Asteroid hunters say they’ve found 27,500 new prospects in search for space rocks A team of asteroid hunters that includes researchers at the University of Washington says it has identified 27,500 new, high-confidence… Read More
Astronomers demonstrate how using the cloud can rev up the race to find asteroids Astronomers have used a cloud-based technique pioneered at the University of Washington to identify and track asteroids in bunches of… Read More
Asteroid Institute adds Google Cloud and AGI as tech partners for asteroid tracking Google Cloud and AGI (a.k.a. Analytical Graphics Inc.) have gotten on board with the B612 Asteroid Institute to develop a… Read More
B612’s new Asteroid Institute enlists UW researchers to help protect our planet The B612 Foundation is setting up an Asteroid Institute to study techniques for detecting and diverting near-Earth objects that may… Read More
Nudge ’em or nuke ’em: Asteroid defense plans take shape in U.S. and Russia What should the world do about the potential threat of a catastrophic asteroid collision? This month NASA established the Planetary… Read More
