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A shark spotted in Greece brought the usual concerned commentary about the threat of a shark attack this summer. I have always joked about this human syndrome. Jaws scared the crap out of [...]

A ‘City Killer’ asteroid discovered just a month ago, to late to do anything about. Designated the innocuous name 2023 DZ2, was a stark reminder that we shouldn’t become [...]

On September 26 2022, NASA’s DART was man’s greatest technological achievement. That is no idle boast, perhaps even more important than going to the moon. Think about that for a [...]

Back in the late 90s, when FAIR Society was launched, NASA’s DART mission (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) wasn’t even a primary planetary defense blueprint. The general scientific [...]

This is why Fair no longer tries to keep up with the latest asteroid news. When we started (before Bruce Willis saved us) sharing awareness about the hazard was less melodramatic. Fearmongering [...]

The Space Guard from Matthew Harmer on Vimeo. Deep in the Welsh countryside, on top of a windswept hill in the middle of a dark sky site, one man is on a mission to guard the planet from the [...]

Most of us are familiar with mild concern caused by the sensation of racing down a runway for takeoff. Even frequent fliers have at some point, if only fleetingly, thought about the consequences [...]

This time it is a theory that scientists could ‘lasso’ the incoming space rock.  In April 2009, David French, a doctoral candidate in aerospace engineering at North Carolina State [...]

After conception and birth, it can be argued that the biggest single event in life is death. It’s a subject most of us don’t like dwelling upon, even in individual circumstances, so [...]