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Meteors

July 2024

  • meteor shower in night sky

    The Conversation
    Two meteor showers will light up Australian and New Zealand skies tonight – here’s how to catch the stellar show

  • A monument is lit up at night with Milky Way stars in the night sky

    Delta Aquariids meteor shower to light up night sky

  • big blue statue photographed at sunset

    Meteor thought to have exploded over midtown Manhattan, Nasa says

  • Footage shared on social media showed the moment a meteor lit up the night sky

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    Meteor flashes across night sky in northern Turkey – video

March 2024

  • The two geologists who found the meteorite eventually handed it over to the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm.

    Swedish landowner can keep meteorite after court battle with geologists

    The meteorite was ruled to be ‘immovable property’ after it fell on to private property in 2020

December 2023

  • Starwatch Monday 11/12/23

    Starwatch
    Starwatch: The last meteor shower of the year

  • Sunrise over Earth as seen from space

    Alien intelligence is surely worth shining a light on

November 2023

  • Avi Loeb at the observatory near his office in Cambridge, MA.

    The alien hunter: has Harvard’s Avi Loeb found proof of extraterrestrial life?

    The astrophysicist and professor likes to ruffle feathers – and says his critics are merely jealous. He discusses UFOs, interstellar objects and the risks of his all-consuming search

October 2023

  • The Starwatch graphic showing where to view the Orionids meteor shower from London on 22 October 2023

    Starwatch
    Starwatch: Orionid meteor shower reaches its peak

    Up to 20 meteors an hour may be visible as Earth passes through centre of dust cloud left by Halley’s comet

September 2023

  • Three people standing next to two telescopes look up at a starry night sky with the Milky Way visible.

    ‘I want to see the first African woman in space’: the Kenyan stargazer bringing astronomy to the people

    Susan Murabana’s passion for astronomy was only sparked in her 20s as science was just ‘for boys’. Now she tours Kenya with a telescope on a mission to reveal the cosmos to all children

August 2023

  • Starwatch for 7 August 2023

    Starwatch
    Starwatch: get ready for the best meteor shower of the year

    Viewing conditions are good because the moon is in an advanced waning phase

July 2023

  • Green meteor traverses night sky in Louisiana – video

    A vehicle dashcam and doorbell camera have captured the moment when what appeared to be a meteor traversed the night sky in the US

June 2023

  • A sign outside the Little A'Le'Inn in Rachel, Nevada, the closest settlement to Area 51.

    Are aliens that bad at parking? What we need to ask about recent UFO revelations

    Recent claims by an ex-US intelligence agency whistleblower about alien spacecraft landings have been met with scepticism by scientists – not least over the galactic visitors’ driving skills

May 2023

  • Screen grab of the meteor seen on Saturday night in Cairns airport, 20 May 2023.

    Meteor blazes across north Queensland sky with blast of light and sound

  • This image provided by Hopewell Township police department shows a metallic object believed to be a meteorite.

    Possible meteorite crashes into bedroom in New Jersey

April 2023

  • The bleak emptiness of the desert … Fragments from Heaven.

    Fragments from Heaven review – Malick-esque origins of life study looks to the skies

    A meteor shower is the central mystery of a documentary set in the Moroccan desert that feels like a cinematic sleeping pill

February 2023

  • Matera is renowned for its limestone buildings and cave dwellings.

    Fragments of ‘Valentine’s fireball’ meteorite fall in southern Italy

    Object hit balcony in Matera and remnants in pristine condition – ‘almost as if we collected it directly from space’, says expert

January 2023

  • A still from a video of the meteor spotted on Monday.

    Meteor reported blazing across sky in parts of UK

  • Meteor seen shooting through night sky from parts of UK – video

November 2022

  • A slice of the El Ali meteorite.

    Researchers discover two new minerals on meteorite grounded in Somalia

    ‘Phenomenal’ finds are named elaliite and elkinstantonite, and Canadian scientists are analysing third mineral
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