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Ancient Human Artifact Was Made With Extraterrestrial Material, Scientists Say

Ancient Human Artifact Was Made With Extraterrestrial Material, Scientists Say

By Sharon Adarlo

Harvard professor Avi Loeb is headed back to Papua New Guinea to find fragments of a meteor that he thinks was actually an alien probe.

Harvard Scientist Planning New Expedition to Hunt for Bigger Chunks of Possible Alien Spacecraft

By Sharon Adarlo

An incredibly bright flash of light lit up the skies over Kyiv, Ukraine, late Wednesday evening — and experts are still hunting for an exact explanation.

Science & Energy

Experts Puzzled by Bright Flash Over Ukraine

By Victor Tangermann

Residents in southern Texas were in for an awfully loud surprise when a meteor blew up midair, spurring a wave panicked 911 calls.

Meteor Explodes Over Texas, Causing Epic Noise and Scattering Debris

By Frank Landymore

Over the weekend, a meteor burned up as it hit our Earth's atmosphere — and lucky skywatchers in Europe were treated to an incredible light show.

Incredible Videos Capture Meteor Burning Up Over European Skies

By Noor Al-Sibai

An eerie green meteor of unknown origin streaked across the night sky on Wednesday, drawing the attention of thousand of onlookers in Ireland and the U.K.

Video Shows Vivid Green Meteor Screaming Over Residential Area

By Frank Landymore

Astrophysicist and Harvard professor Avi Loeb is convinced that a meteor that crashed into the ocean years ago may have been alien in origin.

Experts Puzzled by Harvard Scientist Looking for Alien Wreckage in Ocean

By Frank Landymore

Earth is the only planet known to have continents, and they were created by giant meteoric impacts from space, a new study says.

Earth’s Continents Were Created by Epic Meteor Impacts, Scientists Say

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Residents of Indiana and surrounding states saw a massive fireball meteor hurtle through the atmosphere in the earliest hours on Saturday morning.

Videos Show Meteor So Bright It Lit the Entire Sky

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

More than 30 residents reported a fireball and loud boom that turned out to be a meteor yesterday. Was it connected to that other asteroid?

Science & Energy

Residents Hear Loud Boom That Turns Out to Be a Meteor

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The Chelyabinsk meteorite that exploded in the Russian sky back in 2013 could actually have been involved in the creation of Earth's Moon.

2013 Meteor May Have Been Involved in Creating the Moon

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A meteor exploded over the skies of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on New Year's Day — causing a boom the equivalent of 30 tons of TNT.

Science & Energy

Pittsburgh Shaken by Exploding Meteor

By Tony Ho Tran

Scientists still aren't positive what caused the earthquake-like tremors across New Hampshire, but the new best guess is a meteor exploding overhead.

Science & Energy

Meteor May Have Caused Huge Explosion Over New Hampshire, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

A fireball meteor flew over Turkey last week, illuminating the night sky an eerie shade of bright green before it exploded.

Science & Energy

Videos Shows Meteor Explosion Turning Sky an Eerie Green

By Dan Robitzski

A larger than usual meteor hurtled over Norway on Monday night, lighting up the sky over most of southern Scandinavia.

Video Shows Massive Meteor Lighting Up Entire Night Sky

By Victor Tangermann

The 2021 Planetary Defense Conference Hypothetical Asteroid Impact Tabletop Exercise concluded that we don't have the tech to stop an asteroid impact.

Giant Asteroid Hits Europe After NASA Fails to Stop It, In a Simulation

By Victor Tangermann