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A fireball lit up the skies over southwest England on Sunday night (Feb. 28).

Fireball lights up the night sky above UK as meteor breaks apart

By Harry Baker published

An meteor breaking apart as it entered the atmosphere above the U.K. might be the most well documented fireball meteor ever seen.

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A 30-pound chunk of iron meteorite found in Uppsala, Sweden.

Lumpy, 30-pound meteorite that crashed in Sweden recovered in local village

By Stephanie Pappas published

Two meteor enthusiasts have found a piece of an iron meteorite that fell over Sweden in November 2020.

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The sky is aglow during the Quadrantid meteor shower, as seen from Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada, on Jan. 3, 2009.

Here's how to watch stunning Quadrantid meteor shower tonight

By Stephanie Pappas published

The Quadrantid meteor shower is peaking, and skywatchers in North America have a good chance of seeing the tail end of the show tonight.

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Meteors light up the skies over western Iowa during the Geminid meteor shower.

Spectacular Geminid meteor shower peaks tonight. Here's how to watch the show.

By Stephanie Pappas published

The Geminids meteor shower peaks on Sunday, and should provide good views of shooting stars anywhere the sky is clear.

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A Draconid meteor streaks across the starry sky over Taos, New Mexico, in this photo taken by Mike Lewinski on Oct. 5, 2018.

Draconid Meteor Shower 2020: When, where and how to watch the unpredictable 'shooting star' display

By Mike Wall published

The annual Draconid meteor shower peaks Wednesday evening (Oct. 7) — but the bright, gibbous moon will wash it out.

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A color-coded gravity image of the Ora Banda Impact Crater site. The crater (deep blue) is in the middle of the image.

Gold miners discover 100 million-year-old meteorite crater Down Under

By Laura Geggel published

About 100 million years ago, a gigantic meteorite collided with Australia, creating a 3-mile-wide impact crater.

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A cross section of a small Aguas Zarcas fragment shows colorful clays that might include complex organic compounds.

Rainbow meteorite discovered in Costa Rica may hold building blocks of life

By Rafi Letzter published

A small, soft smacked into Costa Rica on April 23, 2019. And it carried dust older than our sun, as well as clues regarding how life formed on Earth.

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The 2018 Perseid meteor shower seen over Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Alps.

Moon may outshine Perseid meteor shower this month

By Joe Rao published

Skywatchers beware: The moon will hinder attempts to observe the Perseids, typically one of the year's most spectacular meteor showers.

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A member of the Mars 2020 Science Team looks at the calibration target that will be sent on the Mars rover, Perseverance, including SaU 008.

A Martian meteorite is going home, in NASA's Perseverance mission launch

By Mindy Weisberger published

London's Natural History Museum is sending a piece of a Martian meteorite back to the Red Planet with the Perseverance rover.

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An artist's illustration shows how craters on the moon preserve evidence of its violent past.

Meteors more massive than the dinosaur-killing asteroid struck Earth 800 million years ago

By Mindy Weisberger published

A shower of meteors that slammed into the moon (and Earth) had a collective mass estimated to be as much as 60 times that of the asteroid that blasted Earth at the end of the Cretaceous period.

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