It’s no easy task to find a meteorite that’s just been seen flashing across the sky. But it helps if you have an automatic network of “eyes” on the night sky.
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Many meteor showers are a regular annual event, but what you can see varies from year to year. So which showers will be the best for 2016?
A darkened moon is promising to allow us to see one of the best meteor showers of the year, so long as the skies are clear.
The Barringer meteor crater is an iconic Arizona landmark, more than 1km wide and 170 metres deep, left behind by a massive 300,000 tonne meteorite that hit Earth 50,000 years ago with a force equivalent…
The early solar system was a busy place with plenty of meteorite impacts on the new planets and moons. But finding evidence of such impacts on Earth can be tricky.
Astronauts living on the ISS get to experience the wonders of the universe’s natural phenomena like no one else.
From a meteor shower to 67P’s closest approach to the sun: prepare to be amazed by comets.
We can learn much about meteor strikes in ancient Australia by examining the oral traditions of indigenous people.
Meteors have been seen since people first looked at the night sky. They are comprised of small pieces of debris, typically no larger than a grain of dust or sand, which continually crash into the Earth’s…
Watching meteors in the night sky can be fun, although typically you only see a few flashes an hour. But there are certain times of the year when you can see many more – events known as meteor showers…
The best meteor shower of the year should put on an impressive display this weekend – weather permitting – with the annual Geminids poised to light up the sky with bright, long meteors visible as frequently…
Over in the northern hemisphere, where summer is in full swing, it’s the time of the Perseids meteor shower. Generally it’s their best shower of the year, with 100 meteors predicted each hour over August…
Three studies have revealed details of the meteor that exploded above Russian city, Chelyabinsk, in February this year. Their findings, published today in a pair of papers in Nature and one in Science…
Analysis of fragments of the Chelyabinsk meteorite shows it either collided with another body before hitting the atmosphere…
On the morning of June 30 in 1908, a gigantic fireball devastated hundreds of square kilometres of uninhabited Siberian forest around the Tunguska river. The first scientists to investigate the impact…
Australia is famous for its natural beauty: the Great Barrier Reef, Uluru, Kakadu, the Kimberley. But what about the places almost no one goes? We asked ecologists, biologists and wildlife researchers…
One of the most exciting things about science is the detective work, and never was this more the case than Friday. Within an hour or so of the event, almost everyone had seen the dramatic footage of the…
New evidence has supported belief that the building blocks of DNA were brought to Earth by meteorites. The existence of DNA…
The theory that a meteor wiped out the dinosaurs has gained greater plausibility after Yale University researchers discovered…
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