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A meteor flashes across the sky during the peak of the November 2009 Leonid Meteor Shower. (Photo: Ed Sweeney via Wikimedia Commons)

High-Tech Meteorite Hunting

February 9, 2018

Scientists estimate that thousands of extraterrestrial rocks enter our atmosphere every year, most of which burn up or fragment into smaller pieces before hitting Earth. Here’s how the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at NASA/JPL refer to various space objects. Asteroid: A relatively small, inactive, rocky body orbiting the Sun. Comet: A relatively small, […]

A visitor to the Mission Mars exhibition presented by Russia’s Newton Park Interactive Museum of Science together with the children's techno-park Quantorium looks at ears of wheat grown without soil, by the hydroponic method without soil on 10/26/17. (Reuters)

October 2017 Science Images

October 31, 2017

NASA Creates New Office to Protect Us from Asteroid and Comet Impact

January 11, 2016

NASA is taking the potential threat posed by near earth objects (NEO’s), such as asteroids and comets, more seriously than ever and has established the new Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO). The space agency says the new office will oversee all of its efforts in finding and characterizing all celestial objects that travel close to […]

Science Images of the Week

August 15, 2014

Science Images of the Week

May 30, 2014

Rare and Spectacular Meteor Shower May Light Up the Skies Over North and Central America

May 23, 2014

If you live in North or Central America, you just might have front row seats to a rare and spectacular meteor shower. Scientists said that the view might even better if you happen to be in the northwestern United States or in southern Canada NASA said the shower — dubbed the May Camelopardalids, which can […]

Astronauts Warn of Catastrophic Asteroid Strikes

April 23, 2014

Three former astronauts are sounding the alarm about the dangers our planet faces from asteroid impacts and how steps must be taken now to protect against a catastrophic asteroid strike. The three astronauts included  Ed Lu, who flew into space aboard the space shuttle, as well as a Soyuz spacecraft, to and from the International Space […]

Scientists Strike ‘Scientific Gold’ in California

December 21, 2012

While in space and orbiting the sun this celestial body is an asteroid. It’s a meteor as its entering earth’s atmosphere, like a fireball flashing across the sky and a meteorite is the actual object that made it to Earth.

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