The UK's Spaceguard Centre is a key player in tracking near-Earth objects
BBC - 28-Jun-2020Space objects aren't in lockdown so glad someone is still keeping any eye out for existential risks
Natural Disasters News
Probes intended to intercept asteroids for planetary defence
SYFY Wire - 16-Apr-2020Threat of asteroid collision is real - who wants to be wiped out like the dinosaurs?
Planning ahead to save Earth - moving big rocks out of Earth's pathway
Interesting Engineering - 30-Mar-2020We humans definitely don't want to end up like Dinosaurs did!
Potentially devastating asteroid skims by Earth almost undetected
Independent - 20-Sep-2019Have you got your go bag ready in case of an unexpected disaster?
NASA reveals large meteor explosion in December 2018
BBC - 18-Mar-2019This would have caused damage over a populated city
Surprisingly difficult to blow up an asteroid
Sky News - 05-Mar-2019Unless completely obliterated they tend to reform
Threefold increase in asteroid strikes over last 300m years
Guardian - 17-Jan-2019Now every million years... do due one any day now!
NASA's DART planning first planetary defense impact
Space - 02-Jan-2019We don't want to go the same way as the dinosaurs!
New Telescope To Scan For Collision Course Asteroids
Space - 30-Jun-2018NASA's program will scan for all near-earth objects larger than 140 meters in diameter
NASA's plan to defend the Earth from asteroids
CNET - 20-Jun-2018NASA is developing a detection and defence system against 50m to 140m asteroids
Asteroid Almost Hit Earth Yesterday
Outer Places - 16-Apr-2018Asteroid 2018 GE3 passed by Earth at half the distance to the moon.
NASA plans to use nukes against a killer asteroid
Digital Trends - 12-Mar-2018NASA has designed Hypervelocity Asteroid Mitigation Mission for Emergency Response craft.
Asteroid Hunter Tasked With Saving Earth from Killer Impacts
Motherboard - 12-Jan-2018Rare for asteroids to survive passage through the atmosphere to cause damage.
Seismologists produce new 10-year big quake forecast
Stuff - 19-Dec-2017Improved understanding of how larger earthquakes cluster in time and space.
NASA Fails To Spot City Destroying Asteroid
Tech Times - 09-Dec-2017Only spotted the day after it skimmed past the planet.
First international asteroid tracking exercise proves a success
New Atlas - 08-Nov-2017An international team led by NASA has tested the International Asteroid Warning Network, which successfully tracked a potentially dangerous asteroid.
12% chance tech-destroying solar flare could hit in next decade
New Scientist - 16-Oct-2017In 1859, a powerful solar storm affected the Telegraph systems of the day.
House-sized asteroid narrowly misses Earth
Sky News - 12-Oct-2017NASA has estimated that "2012 TC4" is 15m to 30m long (45ft to 100ft) - and in space terms, the asteroid narrowly missed our planet.
Scientists Urge Funding For Armageddon-style Asteroid Mission
Universe Today - 22-Sep-2017Space agencies from around the world are dedicated to develop techniques for protecting Earth from asteroids that pose a collision hazard.
Three asteroids give Earth a close shave in a single week
CNET - 20-Sep-2017Last week three never-before-seen asteroids were discovered whizzing by Earth significantly closer than the vast majority of passing space rocks.
How Nepal’s earthquake was mapped in 48 hours
Wired - 28-Apr-2015Over two thousand digital volunteers examine 14,700 km2 of satellite imagery to identify over 3,000 damaged buildings.
Counting the Economic Cost of Natural Disasters
Bloomberg - 27-Apr-2015U.S. Geological Survey estimates Nepal economic losses at 35% of GDP.
Yellowstone supervolcano just got bigger
Science - 23-Apr-2015New lower-crustal magma magma reservoir discovered with 4-5 times the size of know upper chamber.
Natural disasters displaced more people than war in 2013
Guardian - 17-Sep-2014Norwegian Refugee Council study claims 22 million people driven out of their homes by floods, hurricanes and other hazards
