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With Russian Meteor Fresh In Everyone’s Memory, ESA Opens An Asteroid Monitoring Center
It's been about three months since that infamous meteor broke up over Chelyabinsk, Russia. In that time, there's been a lot…
Warning Shot: a “Bullet Hole” on the ISS
Canadian astronaut and Expedition 35 commander Chris Hadfield just shared this photo on Twitter, showing a portion of one of…
Astronomers Calculate Orbit and Origins of Russian Fireball
Just a week after a huge fireball streaked across the skies of the Chelyabinsk region of Russia, astronomers published a…
Meteor Blast Rocks Russia
This just in: reports of bright meteors and loud explosions have been coming from Russia, with the incredible video above…
Fires in the Sky: Aurorae and Meteor Photo by Ole Salomonsen
A bright fireball slashes through curtains of aurorae shimmering above the mountains of northern Norway, captured on camera by Ole…
Meteorite Crashes Into London Cab
Londoners awoke this morning to news of a meteorite which struck a taxi in the heart of the city's busy…
Valuable Space Rock Crashes Into Oslo Cabin
[/caption] A family in Oslo got a surprise when they visited their allotment garden cabin for the first time this…
The Meteor and the Nordlys
[/caption] A meteor slices through the glow of the northern lights (or "Nordlys") in this photo by Adon Buckley, taken…
A Meteorite Visits the Comettes
[/caption] When your last name is Comette, I'm sure the occasional astronomy-themed joke is never far away. But it's no…
ISS passes Overhead and a Meteor Flashes Through the Sky
UT reader Bryan Stewart sent us this great video, and wrote, "I was out on the 10th shooting video with…