asteroids

Provides information about asteroids, comets, and meteoroids, explaining what they are, what they look like, and where they are located in the solar system, and more.

Presents information on the different tupes of celestial matter known as asteroids, comets, and meteors and on what scientists learned from the impact of a comet on the surface of Jupiter.

Various craters demonstrate that the Earth has experienced a long history of meteor impacts.

The reader's choices determine if survival is possible when a huge rock hurdles through space on a collision course with Earth.

Discusses asteroids, comets, and meterorites that can be found in our solar system, and includes information about the asteroid belt and Halley's Comet.

A huge rock hurdles through space on a collision course with Earth. You've got a little more than a day to get to safety. Where will you go? Who will you help and who will help you?.

As the Anvil, an enormous asteroid, threatens to end all life on Earth, sixteen-year-old Min begins to uncover a lifetime of lies, a sinister conspiracy involving all students in her sophomore class in Fire Lake, Idaho.

Where is the Solar System's biggest mountain? Which planet is hot enough to melt metal? Where would you find the largest desert on Earth? Find out about the record-breaking features on our planet and beyond—from the biggest and slowest to the hottest and longest—all in stunningly designed infographics.

Researching exoplanets is a thrilling new frontier in science. There are periodically fresh stories in the media about exoplanets and the possibility of life existing outside Earth’s solar system. Readers learn about scientists’ speculations on faraway alien life. Profiles of fascinating exoplanets are examined, as are the technical matters of how scientists use spectra to obtain data about stars and planets. The habitable zone of a planet, what extreme life has been discovered, and what life-forms might exist on some moons are studied, as well as the Kepler Mission, launched in 2009 to search for Earth-like planets.

Brought over from Russia to help NASA prevent an asteroid from colliding with Earth, seventeen-year-old physics genius Yuri feels awkward and alone until he meets free-spirited Dovie.