In the Northern Hemisphere, June 20 is the day on which the sun is highest in the sky, aka the summer solstice! This is the ...

From online broadcasts and lectures to hands-on activities, a number of events are happening worldwide. The first Asteroid Day kicked off in 2015, after astrophysicist Brian May, best known as a ...

In previous years, the day has been celebrated by dozens of local events in institutions around the world, with talks centering around asteroid science that were topical that year. Last year ...

A swarm of large asteroids likely lurking around Venus could one day pose an "invisible threat" to Earth if left unchecked, ...

International Asteroid Day, observed on June 30, commemorates the 1908 Tunguska event in Siberia, where an asteroid explosion flattened 830 square miles of forest. Established by the UN in 2016 ...

This year’s Asteroid Day has events planned worldwide and online. An excellent Asteroid Day 2023 webpage has been created by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, filled with teachable moments ...

International Asteroid Day aims to raise public awareness about ... This will be a once-in-a-millennium event and a unique occasion for a worldwide campaign to raise awareness with regard to ...

This year, in honor of Asteroid Day, the Asteroid Foundation will host a two-day event in Luxembourg featuring lectures, space-themed workshops, and family activities on Friday and Saturday.

Lowell Observatory along with Meteor Crater and Barringer Space Museum will co-host Asteroid Day Flagstaff on June 30. The daylong public event is meant to discuss asteroids and their impacts on ...

The United Nations has designated June 30 as International Asteroid Day. That’s the date of the Tunguska Event – the largest observed strike in recorded history. The idea is to raise public ...

Summer is almost underway across the Northern Hemisphere, and with it comes the warmest weather and some of the most ...