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Possible meteorite crashes through the roof of a New Jersey home, lands in bedroom still warm
The likely space rock was about the size of a grapefruit. It could have come from the Eta Aquarids …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Scientists claim they've found a perfectly preserved dinosaur fossil killed when the mass extinction asteroid hit the earth 66 million years ago
Dinosaur fossils found at Tanis in North Dakota are believed to date back to the mass extinction ev…
Marianne Guenot,Alia Shoaib
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Mysterious patches of glass scattered across the Chilean desert are likely the products of an ancient exploding comet
Heat from a comet explosion likely melted and fused soil in the Chilean desert, transforming it int…
Aria Bendix
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A meteor that incinerated the residents of an ancient city inspired the biblical story of Sodom, research suggests
Millennia ago, a meteor half the size of the Statue of Liberty struck an Middle Eastern city. The e…
Aylin Woodward
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A meteorite landed inches away from a woman's pillow as she slept
"The next thing was just a huge explosion and debris all over my face," Hamilton told CBC. "I didn'…
Azmi Haroun
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How to bake a meteorite — scientists are heating up space rocks to recreate the birth of planets
According to her, when the building blocks of a planet are coming together, the material is he…
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A coffin maker says he feels 'cheated' after selling a meteorite that smashed through his roof for $14,000, but the price was probably fair
An expert who talked to the BBC said he "had to laugh" at the number being widely circulated by new…
Naina Bhardwaj
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Werner Herzog's new film, 'Fireball,' explores the power and mystery of meteorites
Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer directed the film, which premiered Friday on Apple TV+. Herzog …
Susie Neilson
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Data from a NASA map confirms a bright meteorite landed just off the coast of South Australia
The Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at the California Institute of Technology analyzes the imp…
Rosie Perper,Rosie Perper
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Video shows a meteorite exploding in the sky near Detroit with the force of a 2.0 earthquake
Video posted on social media Tuesday night shows drivers witnessing a flying rock that emitted a br…
Rosie Perper,Rosie Perper
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Video shows aftermath of Brazil museum fire, with almost nothing left but an ancient meteorite
Luiz Fernando Dias Duarte, the museum's deputy director, said that anything held in the main buildi…
Associated Press,Kelly McLaug…
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There's new evidence that life on Earth began with meteorites crashing into warm little ponds
In a study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researc…
Kevin Loria
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An Italian designer debuted a pair of heels reportedly worth $20 million, made of solid gold, 30 carats of diamonds, and meteorite - and he claims they're 'the most expensive shoes in the world'
Expensive shoes have surpassed luxury handbags as the latest status symbol, Business Insider's Mary…
Hillary Hoffower
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NASA scientists say the Tonga volcano eruption shot out the highest ash plume satellites have ever captured
The Tonga volcano shot a plume of ash 36 miles high, into the third layer of Earth's atmosphere. Th…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The Enigma — a 555-carat black gem and the largest diamond ever auctioned — can be purchased with cryptocurrency
Sotheby's is accepting bitcoin, ethereum, and the stablecoin USDC, according to Coindesk.
Cheryl Teh
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A Massive Chunk Of What Might Be 'The Russian Meteorite' Was Just Pulled From A Frozen Lake
Scientists still need to verify that the hunk of rock came from space and was actually part of the …
Dina Spector
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A Massive Chunk Of What Might Be 'The Russian Meteorite' Was Just Pulled From A Frozen Lake
Scientists still need to verify that the hunk of rock came from space and was actually part of the …
Dina Spector
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Jennifer Lawrence reveals she accidentally inhaled a magnetic nose ring and had to spit it out in front of Leonardo DiCaprio while they were filming 'Don't Look Up'
Jennifer Lawrence said she had the issue "many, many times" while filming the upcoming Netflix film.
Rebecca Cohen
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The dinosaurs may have already been going extinct before the cataclysmic space rock hit Earth, new findings suggest
Did dinosaurs go extinct after a space rock hit Earth 66 million years ago, or were they already de…
Aylin Woodward
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A second space rock hit Earth after the one that doomed the dinosaurs - a nail in the coffin of the mass extinction
After a space rock struck Earth 66 million years ago - killing the dinosaurs - another asteroid hit…