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“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.
Watch a Supercomputer's Fever Dream of the Chelyabinsk Asteroid Flameout
Understanding the dynamics of asteroid airbursts will make us better prepared for them.
Clouds of Colorful Ink Cover a Flower in Mesmerizing Macro Footage
A team of macro photography filmmakers experimented with ink in water and the result is breathtaking.
Scientists Find a Quasicrystal from Outer Space in a Russian Meteorite
How does an impossible material with forbidden symmetries form in the scattered grains of a meteorite? There’s no simple answer.
This Famous 1492 Meteorite Impact Was Interpreted as an Omen from God
A great stone fell out of the sky, triangular in shape, charred, the color of metallic ore, and accompanied by crashing thunder and lightning.”
En indisk mand er måske det første dødsoffer for en meteorit
En mystisk eksplosion fandt sted lørdag på Bharathidasan Engineering College i den sydindiske delstat Tamil Nadu, som følge af et meteoritnedslag. Eksplosionen kostede én person livet og såret tre.
NASA Has Opened a Planetary Defense Office to Protect Earth from Cosmic Collisions
Following a meteor "super-fireball" blast in 2013 and last year's "Halloween Asteroid" scare, the space agency has established an operation that aims to detect, track, and intercept astral bodies that threaten to hit the planet.
Feast Your Eyes on an Erotic Kaleidoscopic Music Video
Meteor's latest music video, edited by Martin Sek, marries art and softcore porn.
A Meteor Gave Spain a Fireworks Show on New Year’s Eve
An observatory captured the burn up of space dust bright enough to shine through the clouds.
Video Shows Exploding Meteor Turning the Skies Green in Thailand
When the sky turned green over Thailand, people immediately flocked to Twitter: Was it a meteor, a shooting star, or maybe aliens from a Korean tv show?