“Pandemics, asteroids, nuclear war, and sudden, destructive climate change” — one of these things might take us out as a species, but there’s nothing to stop you from getting greedy and wishing for all of them at the same time.
Those of us who spend our days longing for a giant piece of space rock to wipe all human life from the face of the planet will find only disappointment in this list of the objects currently hurtling toward Earth. I understand your…
I spent more time than was sensible in 2014 waiting for the asteroid. At night, in the dark…
[T]the United Nations is forming an ‘International Asteroid Warning Group,’ on the advice of an association of former astronauts, to share data about threatening asteroids. In a set of forthcoming…
“As if 12/12/12 wasn’t curious enough of a date already with the whole Mayan-doomsday-but-not-really thing, there’s also the dicey issue of tomorrow’s relatively close encounter with the huge (nearly three miles long) 4179 Toutatis asteroid, expected to pass within 4…
Today at 1:30 p.m., don’t forget to tune into the livecast of the announcement by Planetary Resources about how rich people are going to blow up some space crap in the hunt for platinum and palladium…