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These star trails are from the Eta Aquarids meteor shower of 2020, as seen from Cordoba, Argentina, at its peak on May 6.

How to watch the Eta Aquarids meteor shower this weekend

By Elizabeth Howell published

The show originates from Halley's Comet and may generate as many as 30 shooting stars an hour.

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an image of a meteor streaking above a river in Spain

Meteorites from flaming fireball over Mississippi scattered across the state

By Tia Ghose published

NASA is urging people not to send them in for analysis.

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photo of the Murchison meteorite on a stand at a museum

These meteorites contain all of the building blocks of DNA

By Nicoletta Lanese published

Could these compounds have helped to spark life on Earth?

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A fireball observed by the CA000P Global Meteor Network camera in Ontario on April 17.

Massive fireball scattered loads of meteorites across southern Ontario

By Stefanie Waldek published

On Sunday (April 17), skywatching cameras in Ontario recorded a massive fireball that likely produced tens to hundreds of grams of meteorites.

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The rock was found within the Mistastin impact crater in Labrador, Canada, shown here in this satellite image.

Massive meteorite impact created the hottest mantle rock ever

By Stephanie Pappas published

It's confirmed: The hottest rock ever discovered in Earth's crust really was super-hot.

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The Allan Hills 84001 meteorite came from Mars and was found in Antarctica in 1984.

Infamous Mars meteorite contains organic molecules. But they aren't proof of life.

By Charles Q. Choi published

Organic molecules in a Mars meteorite that crash-landed on Earth are not signs of life, but instead formed in chemical reactions between water and rock.

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Photographer Jeffrey Berkes took the image of the Quadrantid meteor shower over the Florida Keys in 2012.

How to watch the Quadrantid meteor shower this week

By Joe Rao published

Every year, Earth briefly encounters the Quadrantid meteor shower in early January. Here's how to catch the show.

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This rare lunar meteorite (which is not the meteorite that recently fell in British Columbia) is on display at the UCLA Meteorite Gallery. Only a small fraction of the meteorites that strike Earth each year are ever recovered.

Meteorite crash-lands in woman's bed in Canada

By Mindy Weisberger published

A meteorite that landed in British Columbia crashed through a roof and narrowly missed hitting a woman who was asleep in her bed at the time.

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A screenshot of the system scientists used to correlate footage of a February 2020 fireball with still images.

Brilliant dashcam fireball videos help scientists find 3 meteorites in Slovenia

By Meghan Bartels published

Brilliant dashcam fireball videos help scientists find 3 meteorites in Slovenia

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The first "Fountain of Tolerance," in the Italian village of Fontecchio, offers the opportunity to become a human-alien hybrid, via the ingestion of meteorite-infused water.

Art project creates 'human-alien hybrids' with meteorite-infused water

By Mike Wall published

The water flowing from a medieval fountain in the Italian village of Fontecchio bubbles with extraterrestrial effervescence.

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