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Efforts to obtain data on interstellar visitor plagued with difficulties
3-18-2023 |
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A meteor from another solar system landed on Earth back in 2014, but obtaining more information about it has proven challenging.
'Huge diversity' of organic compounds found in Martian meteorite
1-20-2023 | 0
A new study has revealed the presence of a wealth of organic compounds in a rock believed to have come from Mars.
Two never-before-seen 'alien' minerals found inside a meteorite
11-29-2022 | 9
A 17-ton meteorite that landed in Somalia has been found to contain two minerals never seen on Earth before.
Iridescent cloud over China sparks conspiracy theories
9-12-2022 | 12
An explanation for this remarkable meteorological phenomenon was shared online by NASA - but not everyone was convinced.
Avi Loeb leads $1.5M effort to find alien tech on the ocean floor
9-4-2022 | 12
The Harvard astronomer believes that a meteoroid that fell to Earth in 2014 could contain alien technology.
James Webb Space Telescope hit by tiny micrometeoroid
6-9-2022 | 3
The next-generation telescope has been hit by a tiny space rock, but there's no need to be too concerned about it.
Is there alien tech lying at the bottom of the sea ?
4-22-2022 | 104
Harvard physicist Avi Loeb has suggested that some interstellar meteorites could be artificial in nature.
Meteorite crashes through house roof, lands on woman's bed
VIDEO 10-15-2021 | 12
The unsuspecting woman got the fright of her life when the rock crashed through her ceiling.
Art project is creating 'alien-human hybrids'
9-30-2021 | 4
A very unusual art experiment in the Italian village of Fontecchio is turning its residents into alien hybrids.
Liquid water discovered inside a meteorite
5-16-2021 | 8
For the first time, scientists have found liquid water inside a meteorite from the earliest days of the solar system.
Meteor creates loud 'sonic boom' over UK
3-22-2021 | 8
Meteorologists have blamed a meteor for a loud booming noise that shook England's south-west at the weekend.
Here's why you should never, ever eat icicles
1-7-2021 | 9
A meteorologist went viral recently with a very convincing reason for why eating icicles is a very bad idea.
Ancient village was destroyed by a comet
6-22-2020 | 11
A new study has indicated that a Syrian village was destroyed by debris from a comet 13,000 years ago.
Fixed nitrogen found inside Martian meteorite
VIDEO 5-4-2020 | 6
For the first time ever, organic compounds containing nitrogen have been found inside a meteorite from Mars.
Earliest case of 'death by meteorite' revealed
4-29-2020 | 13
Researchers have discovered official records stating that a man in Iraq was killed by a meteorite back in 1888.
Scientists scour Tunguska for 'cosmic matter'
2-28-2020 | 12
Efforts are underway to prove once and for all that the 1908 Tunguska explosion was caused by a meteor.
Exploding meteor captured on doorbell camera
VIDEO 2-4-2020 | 7
A doorbell cam in Derby, England captured the moment a meteor spectacularly exploded in the night sky.
Mystery as museum display case lifts on its own
VIDEO 12-22-2019 | 17
Perplexing CCTV footage has emerged showing a display case moving up and down all by itself.
Scientists identify organism that eats meteorites
12-7-2019 | 2
A microbe with an appetite for meteorites has shown that space rocks may be able to carry life across the cosmos.
Chile's mystery fireball 'was not a meteorite'
10-5-2019 | 12
Scientists have been struggling to explain a series of fires sparked by an object that fell over Chile recently.
