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 ...

A space-based telescope would be much more efficient in finding them and that's just what the B612 Foundation in Mountain View, Calif., is building, says Gerald McKeegan, an astronomer at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 … ...

The foundation also received a grant from Tito’s Handmade Vodka that will match up to $1 million from other donors. B612 and Dr. Lu are now not just trying to save the world.

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.

Even if the B612 group has something important to sell, that doesn’t mean the end is imminent. The Earth has been around for 4.5 billion years; we’ve probably got a pretty good run left. More ...

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 ...

The B612 Foundation is trying to build an asteroid defense system. We photograph Rusty Schweickart in his home office in Tiburon, CA. These photos were shot in Tiburon, ...