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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.
800,000 Years Ago, a Meteor Slammed Into Earth. Scientists Just Found the Crater.
Scientists have finally pinpointed the location of a long-hidden, 790,000-year-old impact crater, found under a lava field in southern Laos.
Ursid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight
The annual Ursid meteor shower will peak during the overnight hours of Sunday (Dec. 22), into the morning hours of Monday (Dec. 23).
