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Meteorite Narrowly Misses Norwegian Skydiver -- The Telegraph A skydiver in Norway captures the first ever footage of a falling meteor...

Daylight Fireball Streaks Over Nevada and California -- Discovery News When reports about a meteor make headline news in Los Angeles, it...

From The BBC: Stargazers are preparing for a sky show as the annual Lyrids meteor shower gets underway on Wednesday. The shower is named aft...

Photo: The Murchison meteorite came down in Australia in 1969 From The BBC: Scientists say they have confirmed that a meteorite that crashe...

An asteroid hurtles toward Earth in an artist's rendering. Illustration by Detlev van Ravenswaay, Astrofoto, Peter Arnold Images, Photol...

From L.A. Times: Sky-watchers, get ready for another late-night adventure. The Geminid meteor shower is to be at its peak tonight and into ...

The annual Geminid meteor shower lights up the sky over the 1600-year old fire temple of Niasar in Iran in a December 14, 2008 photograph. P...

Photo: The hidden fires of the Flame Nebula: meteor showers will be spectacular this weekend From Times Online: Wrap up warm and look at th...

Allen Hills Meteorite Thar be life? NASA From Popular Science: New analytical data supposedly backs the case for Martian life having once...

The Leonid meteor shower streaks over Joshua Tree during a spectacular display in 2001. (Newscom) Leonid Meteor Shower Times: When You Sho...

Leonid meteors streak across the sky over Joshua Tree National Park in California on November 18, 2001. The horizontal streaks are stars and...

From National Geographic: October 15, 2009—When amateur photographer Robert Mikaelyan went out to snap an old Dutch sugar factory on Tuesday...

Halley's comet streaks through the twilight sky on January 9, 1986, in an image from the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chil...

From The BBC: Formic acid, a molecule implicated in the origins of life, has been found at record levels on a meteorite that fell into a Can...