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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 [...]

An asteroid which came crashing into Earth and NASA had no idea it was coming reiterates the need to keep a closer eye on the sky in case a massive space rock comes hurtling towards our planet. [...]

NASA has been tracking an asteroid the size of Great Pyramid of Giza which is travelling at 29,000mph. PUBLISHED: 05:11, Mon, Aug 12, 2019 | UPDATED: 08:46, Mon, Aug 12, 2019 The asteroid, dubbed [...]

This was only the size of a kitchen table.  Fair warning, what? Time we took this science seriously. The asteroid 2012 DA14 which came within orbiting satellites’ distance in our Southern [...]