Mission Asteroid explores future impact of space rocks Coming soon to CBC …CBC.caIf a killer asteroid threatens Earth, stopping it may involve sending human astronauts to divert it. The new documentary Mission Asteroid looks at how scientists are preparing for…
NASA taps Silicon Valley space miners to crowdsource asteroid threats – Quartz
NASA taps Silicon Valley space miners to crowdsource asteroid threatsQuartzNASA is taking a new approach to spotting potentially threatening space rocks hurtling toward earth: Crowdsourcing. Last month the US space agency announced it would begin working with Planetary Resources Inc.…
Earth has high risk of asteroid impact – Arizona Daily Wildcat
Earth has high risk of asteroid impactArizona Daily WildcatThe Chelyabinsk asteroid wasn’t big enough to cause any catastrophic damage to Earth, and scientists believed a collision of that size would only occur once every few hundred years. However, according to…
Science arms itself against asteroids – Windsor Star (blog)
Windsor Star (blog) Science arms itself against asteroidsWindsor Star (blog)Jeff Thrasher, a graduate of Holy Names high school in Windsor, is pictured in the High Arctic where he filmed NASA researcher Pascal Lee studying one the largest impact craters on…
.xyz Signs Registry Agreement with ICANN – SBWire (press release)
.xyz Signs Registry Agreement with ICANNSBWire (press release)Beverly Hills, CA — (SBWIRE) — 12/04/2013 — XYZ.COM, the Internet registry operator behind the new .xyz domain names, has signed its registry agreement with ICANN, paving the way for the new generic…
Alien-hunting equation revamped for mining asteroids – New Scientist
Alien-hunting equation revamped for mining asteroidsNew ScientistRecent years have seen two US companies – Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries – established with the intent of one day mining space rocks. NASA also has asteroid ambitions, with a plan to…