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 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.

In December 2016 the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution A/RES/71/90, declaring 30 June International Asteroid Day in order to "observe each year at the international level the ...

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 ...

Eight years ago Friday was the first Asteroid Day, a “global awareness movement where people from around the world come together to learn about asteroids and what we can do to protect our planet ...

The United Nations in 2016 established June 30 as International Asteroid Day to raise awareness potentially hazardous asteroids and the efforts to find and track them. The eighth annual World ...

Established by the UN in 2016, this day raises awareness about asteroid impact threats and promotes planetary defense efforts. NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) monitors Near ...

International Asteroid Day, observed every June 30, raises awareness of the hazards of asteroid impacts and commemorates the anniversary of the "largest asteroid impact in recorded history." ...

World Asteroid Day is an annual global event which is held on June 30, the anniversary of the Tunguska event in 1908 when a meteor air burst decimated about 2,000 square km (500,000 acres) of pine ...

Two asteroids have stargazers' attention this week – one the size of Mount Everest and another that will pass closer than the moon – just days before Asteroid Day. The massive asteroid, named ...