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Gold miners discover 100 million-year-old meteorite crater Down Under
About 100 million years ago, a gigantic meteorite collided with Australia, creating a 3-mile-wide impact crater.
Rainbow meteorite discovered in Costa Rica may hold building blocks of life
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.
Moon may outshine Perseid meteor shower this month
Skywatchers beware: The moon will hinder attempts to observe the Perseids, typically one of the year's most spectacular meteor showers.
A Martian meteorite is going home, in NASA's Perseverance mission launch
London's Natural History Museum is sending a piece of a Martian meteorite back to the Red Planet with the Perseverance rover.
Meteors more massive than the dinosaur-killing asteroid struck Earth 800 million years ago
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.
Meteor that blasted millions of trees in Siberia only 'grazed' Earth, new research says
Scientists have a new explanation for an explosive cosmic event in 1908 that flattened trees for hundreds of miles in a remote Siberian forest.
Lyrid meteor shower peaks this week: Here's how to watch
Up to 20 meteors per hour may be visible when the Lyrid meteor shower is at its peak.
Earth's oldest known meteor crash site found in Australian Outback
The world's oldest known impact crater has been in Western Australia for more than 2.2 billion years, a new study suggests.
