Meteor
An Interstellar Meteor Crashed to Earth. This Astronomer Wants to See If It’s Aliens.
The meteor that crashed into the Pacific was confirmed to be interstellar by secret government data. Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb wants to recover it.
Secret Government Info Confirms First Known Interstellar Object on Earth, Scientists Say
A small meteor that hit Earth in 2014 was from another star system, and may have left interstellar debris on the seafloor.
'Pristine' Extraterrestrial Organic Compounds Found on Meteorite That Fell on Frozen Lake
The finding can help shed light on the origin of life on Earth, which might have been spurred in part by the delivery of organic compounds inside meteorites like Hamburg.
Scientists Think They Found the Only Guy Known to Get Killed by a Meteorite
The extremely unlucky fatality occurred in 19th century Iraq and was reported all the way up to the Sultan, newly digitized documents reveal.
A Mysterious 'Fireball' Was Spotted In Chile and Nobody Knows What It Was
A meteor? Space junk? Nobody knows, but officials investigated whether the mysterious object, or objects, started several fires.
Mysterious Clouds on Mars Formed by ‘Meteoric Smoke,’ Study Says
Scientists have identified a kind of cloud on Mars that has been neglected in past climate models.
A Meteor More Powerful Than 10 Atomic Bombs Exploded Over the Bering Sea
The December 18 fireball created the biggest airburst since the Chelyabinsk meteor of 2013.
These Electric Blue Clouds Are Made from Ice Crystals and Meteor Debris
NASA’s PMC Turbo mission captured new views of polar mesospheric clouds from a five-day balloon flight over the Arctic.
Watch This Giant Meteor Explode over an Australian Town
Photos make the meteor look like the moon, but it was actually a lump of rock "airbursting” in the upper atmosphere.
“Sonic Boom” Interrupts North Canterbury Dinner Time
It came just hours after NASA announced it will begin taking applications from Kiwi students.
This Asteroid Hunter Is Tasked With Saving Earth from Killer Impacts
Lindley Johnson is NASA’s Planetary Defense Officer and in many ways, the fate of the Earth rests in his hands. But he’s not stressed about it.