June 30 (UPI) --Asteroid Day, observed annually on June 30, was founded in 2015 by scientists including Queen guitarist Brian May to raise awareness of the potential threat asteroid impacts could ...

Today is Asteroid Day, when colleges, museums and observatories across the globe are striving to raise awareness about the wonders and potential dangers of asteroids. From online broadcasts and ...

Asteroid Day aims to raise awareness of the threats posed by space rocks and eventually help boost the rate of near-Earth asteroid discovery by a factor of 100. "We need all nations to cooperate ...

June 30th marked the world's first Asteroid Day – a global awareness campaign designed to promote an understanding of the dangers presented by the rocky bodies, and how best to protect our ...

In December 2016, the United Nations approved International Asteroid Day “to raise public awareness about the asteroid impact hazard.” Asteroid risks have been known for some time. June 30 ...

The center of attention this Asteroid Day — a day set aside to raise awareness of the risks of asteroid impacts — was a cream-colored sphere, larger than a baseball, with grooves and markings ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Asteroid Day, the official United Nations’ day of global awareness and education about asteroids, and Redbubble, the largest global marketplace for independent ...

Asteroid Day is a global awareness campaign spearheaded by the Asteroid Foundation in Luxembourg, and it has been an official day in the United Nations' calendar since December of 2016.

The United Nations said that the point of International Asteroid Day is to “raise public awareness of the asteroid impact hazard”-- in other words, to work towards making sure that we all don ...

Coincidentally, on the same day as the Chelyabinsk incident, the slightly larger near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14 sped past our planet at a distance of just 17,200 miles (27,700km). Perhaps I should ...

Today is Asteroid Day, when colleges, museums and observatories across the globe are striving to raise awareness about the wonders and potential dangers of asteroids. From online broadcasts and ...