Brown agrees that the true hit rate for asteroids of that size is probably more frequent than past estimates, but he's cautious about the B612 Foundation's once-a-century number.

The B612 Foundation get its name from “The Little Prince,” the 1943 French novella whose main character hailed from a small asteroid designated on Earth as B612. Co-founded in 2002 by former ...

WASHINGTON — The B612 Foundation, which once sought to privately develop a large space observatory to search for potentially hazardous near Earth objects (NEOs), is now studying an alternative ...

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 ...

The B612 Foundation has released a video depicting the distribution of 26 asteroid impacts known to have struck the Earth since the year 2000. Many of the impacts detected exploded with a force ...

The B612 Foundation sets up an Asteroid Institute to focus on threats from near-Earth objects – and gives the University of Washington a leading role.

NASA is parting ways with the B612 Foundation — the organization hoping to build a spacecraft to hunt down Earth-destroying asteroids, SpacePolicyOnline reports.NASA had a Space Act Agreement ...

What is the B612 Foundation? Real astronauts, real engineers, and a real plan for deflecting asteroids from collision courses with Earth. Founded back in 2001, B612 (named after the tiny planetoid the ...

California-based non-profit B612 Foundation has announced its intention to place an asteroid-hunting infrared telescope into orbit around the Sun. Named Sentinel, the ambitious endeavor is to be ...

The nonprofit B612 Foundation 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 terminate a … ...

B612 Foundation Sentinel Spacecraft . B612 Foundation . In a press conference at the California Academy of Sciences Thursday morning, the B612 Foundation unveiled its plans to build, launch, and ...