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The 5 best apps to watch tonight's spectacular meteor shower
Right now, the stunning Perseid meteor shower is in full swing, and astronomers estimate that tonight the shower will reach its peak, where viewers can see as many as 100 meteors an hour!This will...
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18 stunning images of the Perseid meteor shower from around the world
The Perseid meteor shower put on an incredible celestial show this week as tons of fiery meteors crash into Earth's atmosphere and lit up the night sky.The meteor shower happens every year starting in...
View ArticleHere's a time-lapse of the Perseids — the most stunning meteor shower of the...
The Perseid meteor shower occurs every year beginning in the month of July and extending through most of August. This year, the Perseids were most visible on August 12, 2015. Here is a time-lapse video...
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Awesome images of this week's meteor shower
The Perseid meteor shower put on an incredible celestial show this week as tons of fiery meteors crash into Earth's atmosphere and lit up the night sky.The meteor shower happens every year starting in...
View ArticleWatch a meteor blow up over Bangkok in broad daylight
If you were driving through the streets of Bangkok in Thailand yesterday, you might have been lucky enough to see a huge fireball zoom towards the horizon, flash, and fizzle out, as a meteor entered...
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There's a meteor shower from Halley's Comet coming this week — here's how to...
If you're willing to wake up before the crack of dawn, you'll get to see a spectacular celestial show this week.The Orionid meteor shower happens around this time every year when the Earth passes...
View ArticleA Harvard physicist explains why we could be in the middle of the sixth mass...
Harvard Physicist Lisa Randall explains how Earth could be in the middle of the 6th mass extinction due to human activity.Randall has authored several books, including the recent "Dark Matter and the...
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There's a mysterious meteor shower happening this weekend
This weekend is your chance to see an amazing and equally mysterious meteor shower called the Geminids meteor shower."The Geminids are my favorite," said NASA Astronomer Bill Cooke in a release,...
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The best places in the country to watch tonight's stunning meteor shower
A dazzling meteor shower is happening tonight with perfect viewing conditions because the moon will be a very thing crescent, so its light won't interfere with the show.Each December, we're treated to...
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Geologists discover an intriguing type of rock that's older then Earth itself
A meteorite fragment believed to be older than Earth itself has been discovered in Australia, and it almost washed away before scientists had a chance to get to it.The recovery operation involved a...
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A spectacular 'fireball' was spotted burning up in the Northeast sky
Hundreds of people spotted a fireball streaking through the sky at about 6:16 p.m. Saturday evening, ABC news reports.The meteor was primarily visible in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, but there were...
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New research points to something unsettling about the giant meteor that...
It’s been 3 years since the dazzling fireball over Chelyabinsk, Russia, and its aftereffects in 6 Russian cities. Yet scientists still don’t know its origin.On February 15, 2013, many on Earth were...
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There's an unsettling reason why we know about the gigantic fireball that no...
Earlier this month, on Feb. 6, a giant fireball came screaming through Earth's atmosphere. But the chances that anyone actually saw it are few to none.This fireball likely exploded with the energy...
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The 5 biggest meteors to crash into Earth
We live on a moving target in a cosmic firing range.Each day, the Earth is bombarded by about a hundred tonnes of space debris. It may sound alarming, but this is really nothing to worry about.Most of...
View ArticleA huge flash was filmed in the sky in Scotland and there's a high probability...
On Monday evening multiple people captured footage of what appeared to be a meteor in the sky over Scotland.Police across the northern Britain received calls after a huge, bright flash was seen...
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One of the brightest fireballs in recorded history barreled across Britain's...
In the early morning of March 17, hours before the Saint Patrick’s Day festivities began, the skies of Britain were lit up by a bright blue-green meteor.The fireball was spotted at around 3.16 a.m....
View ArticleScientists may have discovered what caused these mysterious giant holes in...
In the summer of 2014 a giant crater was spotted in an area sometimes referred to as the "end of the world." Now, 2 years later, scientists finally think they know what caused these massive...
View ArticleThe unsettling reasons no one saw the Chelyabinsk meteor over Russia coming —...
In 2013, a fireball exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia. No one saw it coming. Even though NASA has been able to identify over 14,000 near-earth objects, its asteroid tracking technology is not...
View ArticleSomething was killing off dinosaurs long before they went extinct — and it...
British research discovered the disappearance of dinosaurs millions of years before they went extinct. Populations weren't multiplying as fast as they were dying off. What could have been the...
View ArticleHere's the destruction different asteroids would cause if they hit Earth
NASA tracks more than 10,000 Near Earth Objects (NEOs) in space. Millions of years ago, one of these NEOs hit Earth, wiping out the dinosaurs. No person has every been killed by one in recorded human...
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