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 ...

More than 700 events are scheduled to take place in 190 countries across the globe for this year's Asteroid Day celebration on Friday (June 30). If you can't make it to one of these events ...

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 ...

Asteroid Day is held on 30 June each year to mark Earth’s largest asteroid impact in recorded history, the Siberia Tunguska event, which devastated over 2,000 km2 of forest, an area the size of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thursday is International Asteroid Day, an annual event intended to raise awareness about the potential hazards that asteroids pose to our planet. It's also the anniversary of the Tunguska event ...

You can prepare by attending one of the many Asteroid Day events, found on the website here . But don't despair if you can't attend. The site will be broadcasting video clips, panels and even a ...

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