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Spectacular Geminid meteor shower peaks tonight. Here's how to watch the show.
The Geminids meteor shower peaks on Sunday, and should provide good views of shooting stars anywhere the sky is clear.
Draconid Meteor Shower 2020: When, where and how to watch the unpredictable 'shooting star' display
The annual Draconid meteor shower peaks Wednesday evening (Oct. 7) — but the bright, gibbous moon will wash it out.
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.
