This diagram shows the various parts of the Sentinel Space Telescope, an asteroid-monitoring observatory planned by the B612 Foundation. Nearly 9,000 near-Earth asteroids are known today ...

The B612 Foundation, in conjunction with Ball Aerospace, intends to implement an infrared survey mission, which will catalog 90 percent of all asteroids larger than 140 m (459 ft) within the area ...

The B612 Foundation is a group of scientists, engineers, and astronauts who want to literally save the world… from asteroid impacts. They know the first step in doing so is to build a telescope ...

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 ...

The Mill Valley, California-based B612 Foundation announced plans in 2012 to develop Sentinel, a space telescope with an estimated cost of $450 million, to look for asteroids that could pose an ...

With Earth Day round the bend, you'd expect to hear some positive news regarding our planet and the celestial bodies that surround it; instead we have some not-so-good-news. According to former ...

Editors Note: Ed Lu is a former NASA astronaut and current CEO of the B612 Foundation. His goal is to build a space telescope that will detect possibly cataclysmic asteroids headed for Earth.

If you need cheering up today, just remember that the asteroid from The Little Prince is real. The real-world version is a 2 kilometer-wide asteroid called 46610 Bésixdouze, and it’s a charming ...

On Tuesday, B612 Foundation, a nonprofit group that Dr. Lu helped found, announced the discovery of more than 100 asteroids. (The foundation’s name is a nod to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s ...

The B612 Foundation today announced the formation of a new science and technology institute dedicated to protecting Earth from asteroid impacts. Dr. Ed Lu, three time US astronaut and Co-founder ...

An organization called the B612 Foundation has a very different estimate for this sort of major impact. B612 believes that an asteroid large enough to decimate a city hits the Earth as often as ...

The private B612 Foundation, set up to detect asteroids that could threaten Earth's survival, has lost its funding and support from Nasa. Sentinel was originally scheduled for a 2016 launch ...