Science news articles about 'space rocks'

Now is your chance to protect Earth from being walloped by space rocks.

NASA needs more funding in order to track potentially dangerous space rocks.

A space rock explosion over an island region of Indonesia this month is perhaps the biggest object to tangle with the Earth since 1994.

A novel experiment has dealt a setback to a theory that life on Earth was kickstarted by bacteria that hitched a ride on space rocks.

An asteroid of a similar size to a rock that exploded above Siberia in 1908 with the force of a thousand atomic bombs whizzed close past Earth on Monday, astronomers said on Tuesday.

... first time have recovered meteorite pieces from an asteroid first observed in space - a stroke of luck that could prove valuable when tracking space rocks heading on a collision course toward Earth.

Learn why asteroids are a whole lot more than space debris.

... Life on Earth first came out of the oceans, but the water itself may have originated from extraterrestrial space rocks. A new study points to a turbulent period when the solar system's giant planets ...

At around 7:17 on the morning of June 30, 1908, a man based at the trading post at Vanavara in Siberia is sitting on his front porch.

... call for Earth. That explosive event over remote Tunguska is generally viewed by scientists as a large space rock that pierced through the atmosphere of Siberia, then detonated to flatten some 2,000 ...

A tiny Canadian satellite will track space rocks near Earth.

... abundant resource is important since these tiny pieces of rock allow us to study distant objects in ... the cosmic dust comes from a family of ancient space rocks called Koronis asteroids, which includes ...

... a passing star. The 1951 classic movie based on the novel began a long line of adventure stories of space rocks apocalyptically plowing into Earth. "But," Zuckerman noted, "there is ...

The small space rock won't hit the planet, say astronomers, who note that this marks the first time they have been warned of an object approaching so close to Earth.

A small asteroid exploded over Africa this week in what astronomers said was the first firm prediction of an incoming space rock.