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Quadrantids meteor shower: Overnight on Jan. 3-4, 2026 we have the Quadrantids annual meteor shower reaches its peak. www.livescience.com/space/starga...
January 3, 2026 at 12:13 AM
Quadrantids meteor shower: Overnight on Jan. 3-4, 2026 we have the Quadrantids annual meteor shower reaches its peak. www.livescience.com/space/starga...
Shocked Quartz: When two carbon-rich space rocks slam into each other, the impact makes them shocked...unless they are carbon rich. Meteorites that contain carbon appear less affected by such violent encounters than those that don't. www.space.com/the-universe...
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December 31, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Shocked Quartz: When two carbon-rich space rocks slam into each other, the impact makes them shocked...unless they are carbon rich. Meteorites that contain carbon appear less affected by such violent encounters than those that don't. www.space.com/the-universe...
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Faux Meteorite: Not a meteorite but manmade debris falling from space is a disaster waiting to happen. When a piece of debris hits another object in space, it can also create more space debris, adding to the problem. www.space.com/space-explor...
December 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Faux Meteorite: Not a meteorite but manmade debris falling from space is a disaster waiting to happen. When a piece of debris hits another object in space, it can also create more space debris, adding to the problem. www.space.com/space-explor...
Mars Meteorite: NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has found a possible meteorite on the surface of the Red Planet. If its origin is confirmed, this would be Perseverance's first meteorite find since arriving at the Red Planet on Feb. 18, 2021. www.space.com/space-explor...
After 5 years on Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover may have found its 1st meteorite (photos)
NASA's Perseverance rover spotted a possible space rock on the surface of Mars. The meteorite's nickname is 'Phippsaksla.'
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December 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Mars Meteorite: NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has found a possible meteorite on the surface of the Red Planet. If its origin is confirmed, this would be Perseverance's first meteorite find since arriving at the Red Planet on Feb. 18, 2021. www.space.com/space-explor...
Drones: Scientists in Western Australia have carried out the first recovery of an observed meteorite fall with the help of drones and machine-learning techniques. The finding could pave the way for more falls to be located and studied. physicsworld.com/a/huge-leap-...
'Huge leap' as scientists report first drone-assisted space rock recovery after observed meteorite fall – Physics World
Researchers in Western Australia have been working on automating the discovery of meteorites with drones and machine learning
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December 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Drones: Scientists in Western Australia have carried out the first recovery of an observed meteorite fall with the help of drones and machine-learning techniques. The finding could pave the way for more falls to be located and studied. physicsworld.com/a/huge-leap-...
Psyche the $100,000 quadrillion asteroid : Ever wonder where those iron meteorites come from? Irons are not the most common meteorites, about 15%, but they are easier to recognize and collect. www.livescience.com/space/astero...
$100,000 quadrillion asteroid Psyche may be the product of metal volcanoes, study hints
The metal-coated asteroid Psyche may have had eruptions of molten iron and nickel on its surface. This situation was more likely if the space rock is made of the same chemicals as metal-rich meteorite...
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December 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Psyche the $100,000 quadrillion asteroid : Ever wonder where those iron meteorites come from? Irons are not the most common meteorites, about 15%, but they are easier to recognize and collect. www.livescience.com/space/astero...
Ursid meteor shower 2025: The longest night of the year approaches. On Dec. 21-22, keep an eye out for "shooting stars" as the annual Ursid meteor shower peaks. www.livescience.com/space/meteor...
Ursid meteor shower 2025: When and where to see 'shooting stars' on the longest night of the year
Here's how to see the Ursid meteor shower, which peaks in dark skies close to a new moon this year.
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December 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Ursid meteor shower 2025: The longest night of the year approaches. On Dec. 21-22, keep an eye out for "shooting stars" as the annual Ursid meteor shower peaks. www.livescience.com/space/meteor...
More Comet 3I/ATLAS: The U.N.'s International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) has this comet under close observation by 80+ citizen scientists from around the world. Is it a threat to Earth...probably not, but that green glow it is emitting. www.livescience.com/space/comets...
The UN is closely watching alien comet 3I/ATLAS. Here's why.
Tracking comets accurately is hard. A new effort with the U.N. and NASA aims to better chart these visitors using 3I/ATLAS.
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December 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
More Comet 3I/ATLAS: The U.N.'s International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) has this comet under close observation by 80+ citizen scientists from around the world. Is it a threat to Earth...probably not, but that green glow it is emitting. www.livescience.com/space/comets...
Comet 3I/ATLAS: Images taken with the Gemini North telescope confirm that the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has gotten brighter and greener since its close flyby of the sun. That green color and glow again hmmm. www.livescience.com/space/comets...
Comet 3I/ATLAS is getting greener and brighter as it approaches Earth, new images reveal
New images taken with the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii confirm that the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has gotten brighter and greener since its close flyby of the sun in October.
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December 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Comet 3I/ATLAS: Images taken with the Gemini North telescope confirm that the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has gotten brighter and greener since its close flyby of the sun. That green color and glow again hmmm. www.livescience.com/space/comets...
Martian Impacts: NASA’s InSight lander team recently discovered that meteorites crashing down on Mars can produce distinctive sounds in form of low-frequency sounds. Combining these sounds with seismic data, the researchers have now identified corresponding craters. physics.aps.org/articles/v15...
December 15, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Martian Impacts: NASA’s InSight lander team recently discovered that meteorites crashing down on Mars can produce distinctive sounds in form of low-frequency sounds. Combining these sounds with seismic data, the researchers have now identified corresponding craters. physics.aps.org/articles/v15...
Geminid meteor shower: Dec 13 & 14 are a great opportunity to see over 100 meteors per hour in its annual display. The best views will be from the Northern Hemisphere. www.livescience.com/space/meteor...
See up to 150 'shooting stars' per hour this weekend as the Geminid meteor shower reaches its stunning peak
The Geminid meteor shower peaks this weekend! The Geminids peak overnight on Dec. 13 and 14, when up to 150 "shooting stars" per hour will rain down on Earth in a near-moonless night sky.
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December 13, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Geminid meteor shower: Dec 13 & 14 are a great opportunity to see over 100 meteors per hour in its annual display. The best views will be from the Northern Hemisphere. www.livescience.com/space/meteor...
Meteorite: A new meteorite fall occurred in Pebble, Alabama about a month ago. The orbit for this bolide was entirely within Mars' orbit, lending the possibility that it is an unusual type, maybe even a Martian meteorite worth a handsome sum of money. ares.jsc.nasa.gov/meteorite-fa...
December 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Meteorite: A new meteorite fall occurred in Pebble, Alabama about a month ago. The orbit for this bolide was entirely within Mars' orbit, lending the possibility that it is an unusual type, maybe even a Martian meteorite worth a handsome sum of money. ares.jsc.nasa.gov/meteorite-fa...
Modern Impact Crater: Largest, a 900 Meter modern impact crater discovered in China. By “modern,” the researchers mean it was formed within our current geological epoch, the Holocene, or 11,700 years old. www.iflscience.com/at-900-meter...
At 900 Meters Across, Earth's Largest Modern Impact Crater Has Just Been Found By Scientists
Where's it been hiding?
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December 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Modern Impact Crater: Largest, a 900 Meter modern impact crater discovered in China. By “modern,” the researchers mean it was formed within our current geological epoch, the Holocene, or 11,700 years old. www.iflscience.com/at-900-meter...
Supermoon: It’s true that the moon is sometimes closer to Earth than at other times, but illusion makes the moon look larger at times when low in the horizon. earthsky.org/space/video-...
The moon illusion makes the moon look huge!
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December 6, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Supermoon: It’s true that the moon is sometimes closer to Earth than at other times, but illusion makes the moon look larger at times when low in the horizon. earthsky.org/space/video-...
Martian Meteorite: NASA's Perseverance rover has discovered a highly unusual rock lying on the surface of Mars. This apparently is an Iron Meteorite from another planet as is has Fe/Ni in it, which is not common to Martian rocks. www.livescience.com/space/mars/o...
Odd-looking rock on Mars is totally alien to the Red Planet, Perseverance rover finds
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover recently came across an odd rock, dubbed "Phippsaksla," that is unlike anything else the robot has found on the Red Planet. It turns out that it probably isn't from our ...
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December 4, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Martian Meteorite: NASA's Perseverance rover has discovered a highly unusual rock lying on the surface of Mars. This apparently is an Iron Meteorite from another planet as is has Fe/Ni in it, which is not common to Martian rocks. www.livescience.com/space/mars/o...
Danger?: How dangerous are interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS? Oumuamua, then 2l/Borisov, comet 3I/Atlas, ?. Been a lot of intergalactic space objects visit us recently. What is next? www.livescience.com/space/astron...
How dangerous are interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS?
Interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS are most likely to enter our solar system from two specific directions, a new study suggests. What does it mean for Earth?
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November 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Danger?: How dangerous are interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS? Oumuamua, then 2l/Borisov, comet 3I/Atlas, ?. Been a lot of intergalactic space objects visit us recently. What is next? www.livescience.com/space/astron...
Comet Fragment Fireball: A green fireball lit up the skies over the Great Lakes in the early hours of Sunday. It was visible over hundreds of miles. www.livescience.com/space/meteor...
100,000 mph 'comet fragment' explodes in green fireball over Great Lakes, eerie videos show
A fireball lit up the skies over the Great Lakes in the early hours of Sunday and was visible for hundreds of miles.
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November 28, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Comet Fragment Fireball: A green fireball lit up the skies over the Great Lakes in the early hours of Sunday. It was visible over hundreds of miles. www.livescience.com/space/meteor...
Huge Meteorite: A 3.26 billion-year-old impact reveals that microbial life, which was the only type of life at that time, may have ultimately benefited from the impact of a meteorite 50 to 200 times larger than the one that killed off the terrestrial dinosaurs. www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
A meteorite 100 times bigger than the dinosaur-killing space rock may have nourished early microbial life
On a young Earth, giant meteors might have been a harbinger of life, not death.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Huge Meteorite: A 3.26 billion-year-old impact reveals that microbial life, which was the only type of life at that time, may have ultimately benefited from the impact of a meteorite 50 to 200 times larger than the one that killed off the terrestrial dinosaurs. www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
Wilkes Land crater: In Antarctica a 315 mile wide subglacial depression was likely caused by a meteorite impact. A lot of interesting stuff under the ice and snow in that part of the world www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
This giant hole beneath Antarctica could be the 'greatest impact crater known' on Earth
Researchers have proposed many origins for a gravity anomaly in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, but the latest evidence suggests the subglacial hole is an impact crater measuring 315 miles across.
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November 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Wilkes Land crater: In Antarctica a 315 mile wide subglacial depression was likely caused by a meteorite impact. A lot of interesting stuff under the ice and snow in that part of the world www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
Antarctica's missing meteorites: Using a little reality experience, those wayward meteorites were right where nature sent them. Looks like those stony-irons and irons might be a little deeper in the ice and snow. Time to get out the metal detector. www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
'It was so simple': How Antarctica's missing meteorites were discovered using a block of ice, a freezer and a lamp
"What if the iron stones were warming up to the point where they would actually melt the glacial ice beneath them and sink into it, perhaps even descending far enough so as to be hidden below the surf...
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November 20, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Antarctica's missing meteorites: Using a little reality experience, those wayward meteorites were right where nature sent them. Looks like those stony-irons and irons might be a little deeper in the ice and snow. Time to get out the metal detector. www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
Cascadia Subduction Zone: The overall period of rupture is 300-500 years, with the Southern zone having a major earthquake every 220 years. The last Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake was in 1700. We are due. Interesting reading. www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
November 17, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Cascadia Subduction Zone: The overall period of rupture is 300-500 years, with the Southern zone having a major earthquake every 220 years. The last Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake was in 1700. We are due. Interesting reading. www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
Leonid: Next week one of the most prominent meteor show happens next week and peaks Tuesday 18th. For North America, the best time to look will be before dawn on Tuesday, Nov. 18. www.space.com/stargazing/m...
The Leonid meteor shower peaks next week. Here's what to expect
For North America, the best time to look will be before dawn on Tuesday, Nov. 18.
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November 15, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Leonid: Next week one of the most prominent meteor show happens next week and peaks Tuesday 18th. For North America, the best time to look will be before dawn on Tuesday, Nov. 18. www.space.com/stargazing/m...
Meteors impact the Moon: 2 meteors impact the moon a couple days apart. Impacts are fairly common as the many craters show, but catching that on film is uncommon. www.iflscience.com/watch-as-two...
November 12, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Meteors impact the Moon: 2 meteors impact the moon a couple days apart. Impacts are fairly common as the many craters show, but catching that on film is uncommon. www.iflscience.com/watch-as-two...
Micro Meteorites: Climate Change is being understood better by scientists studying this space dust. "It will help us understand warming, predict changes to food webs and fishing, and prepare for geopolitical shifts." www.space.com/science/clim...
Space dust in the Arctic is helping scientists track the climate crisis
Space dust in the Arctic is helping scientists track the climate crisis
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November 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Micro Meteorites: Climate Change is being understood better by scientists studying this space dust. "It will help us understand warming, predict changes to food webs and fishing, and prepare for geopolitical shifts." www.space.com/science/clim...
Mars Meteorites: Astronomers have traced the origins of 200 meteorites to five impact craters in two volcanic regions on Mars, known as Tharsis and Elysium. www.space.com/mars-meteori...
200 meteorites on Earth traced to 5 craters on Mars
Astronomers have traced the origins of 200 meteorites to five impact craters in two volcanic regions on Mars, known as Tharsis and Elysium.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Mars Meteorites: Astronomers have traced the origins of 200 meteorites to five impact craters in two volcanic regions on Mars, known as Tharsis and Elysium. www.space.com/mars-meteori...