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A series of ancient impact craters could be evidence of where meteors fell to Earth from a ring system hundreds of millions of years ago.

Science & Energy

Scientists Find Evidence Earth Used to Have a Ring Like Saturn

By Frank Landymore

The Perseid meteor shower is back, and it's guaranteed to bring one of the best celestial light shows you'll see this year.

If You Look Up Tonight, There’s a Beautiful Meteor Shower Right Now

By Frank Landymore

Loud booms and shakes earlier this week were the result of a meteor burning up over New York City's Statue of Liberty, NASA says.

NASA Says a Meteor Burnt Up Over the Statue of Liberty

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists are scouring the roofs of cathedrals for cosmic dust, micrometeorites, in order to study the chemistry of meteors.

Scientists Searching Roofs of Ancient Cathedrals for Strange Cosmic Dust

By Sharon Adarlo

Avi Loeb, Harvard's premiere alien hunter, has become the first person to ever analyze an object from outside of our Solar System.

Alien Hunting Scientist Says He Found Something Extremely Interesting at the Bottom of the Ocean

By Noor Al-Sibai

The biggest, brightest meteor shower of the year, the annual Perseids shower, will be on full display this Saturday and Sunday.

The Most Amazing Meteor Shower of the Year Is This Weekend

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A woman in France was reportedly struck by a tiny, rebounding piece of meteorite while chatting with a friend over a cup of coffee.

Woman Reportedly Struck by Meteorite While Drinking Coffee

By Victor Tangermann

Harvard's resident UFO hunter thinks he may have tiny found fragments of an interstellar meteor at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

Harvard Scientist Trawling Ocean Floor for Possible Alien Spacecraft

By Noor Al-Sibai

After an alleged meteor struck a house in New Jersey, residents began wondering whether insurance covers extraterrestrial damage.

New Jersey Ponders Whether Meteor Damage Is Covered by Insurance

By Noor Al-Sibai

An array of fiery streaks was spotted soaring across the sky over Florida early Thursday morning, believed to be the remains of a deployed Chinese rocket.

Burning Rocket Debris Leave Epic Streak Across Florida Sky

By Frank Landymore

Residents of Sacremento and Northern California at large were treated to fiery streaks soaring overhead. Magnificent, but with mundane origins.

Jettisoned From Space Station, Burning Space Junk Streaks Across California Sky

By Frank Landymore

If you've ever wondered what a meteoroid sounds like when it slams into another planet, NASA says they've recorded just that — for the first time ever.

NASA Releases First-Ever Audio of Meteoroids Smashing Into Mars

By Frank Landymore

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

NASA's Meteor Watch made sightings of at least five fireballs soaring through the sky over the US last Friday night at 32,000 mph.

Science & Energy

NASA Puzzled by Five Fireballs Over America in One Night

By Victor Tangermann