Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon and owner of the private aerospace firm Blue Origin, has unveiled an ambitious new concept to protect Earth from potentially catastrophic asteroid impacts.
The plan, developed in collaboration with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the California Institute of Technology, centres on a mission dubbed Near‑Earth Objects (NEO) Hunter. The initiative would see advanced spacecraft deployed to detect, analyse, and, if necessary, divert space rocks that could otherwise collide with our planet.
