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![A member of the Mars 2020 Science Team looks at the calibration target that will be sent on the Mars rover, Perseverance, including SaU 008.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/oTmFNqgoSBauQENtsejEaS-320-80.jpg)
A Martian meteorite is going home, in NASA's Perseverance mission launch
By Mindy Weisberger published
London's Natural History Museum is sending a piece of a Martian meteorite back to the Red Planet with the Perseverance rover.
![An artist's illustration shows how craters on the moon preserve evidence of its violent past.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/U4gZq7kYHZQUv73XQcvgf-320-80.jpg)
Meteors more massive than the dinosaur-killing asteroid struck Earth 800 million years ago
By Mindy Weisberger published
A shower of meteors that slammed into the moon (and Earth) had a collective mass estimated to be as much as 60 times that of the asteroid that blasted Earth at the end of the Cretaceous period.
![A mysterious blast in 1908, thought to have been caused by a meteor, flattened a Siberian taiga forest. This photo was taken in 1938, during an expedition by Russian mineralogist Leonid Kulik, investigating the event.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/VKDp3M8oYYohBw3eg3CkHi-320-80.jpg)
Meteor that blasted millions of trees in Siberia only 'grazed' Earth, new research says
By Mindy Weisberger published
Scientists have a new explanation for an explosive cosmic event in 1908 that flattened trees for hundreds of miles in a remote Siberian forest.
![The Lyrid meteors have been visible from Earth for thousands of years.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/RahjcWeK7kPhzq7cXaAeyh-320-80.jpg)
Lyrid meteor shower peaks this week: Here's how to watch
By Mindy Weisberger published
Up to 20 meteors per hour may be visible when the Lyrid meteor shower is at its peak.
![A Google Earth image of the Yarrabubba impact structure in Western Australia, with the vanished crater drawn in by the authors.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/gApPfLL8ijEfBmM2AUozrj-320-80.jpg)
Earth's oldest known meteor crash site found in Australian Outback
By Brandon Specktor published
The world's oldest known impact crater has been in Western Australia for more than 2.2 billion years, a new study suggests.
![A fiery meteor slams into Earth's atmosphere.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/CftyrhRcwvegQqY8ecG6d4-320-80.jpg)
800,000 Years Ago, a Meteor Slammed Into Earth. Scientists Just Found the Crater.
By Mindy Weisberger published
Scientists have finally pinpointed the location of a long-hidden, 790,000-year-old impact crater, found under a lava field in southern Laos.
![Meteors streak through the sky over Texas in this photo captured by Tony Corso during the Geminid meteor shower in December 2017.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/WRcL4kmtEAqMjXVFy3kfC7-320-80.jpg)
Ursid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight
By Joe Rao published
The annual Ursid meteor shower will peak during the overnight hours of Sunday (Dec. 22), into the morning hours of Monday (Dec. 23).
![The scientists on the expedition hope that two specialized arrays of metal detectors, towed by snowmobiles, will reveal iron meteorites from the early solar system just below the icy surface.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/7mgb6s7jQv9uytHgnLGnYZ-320-80.jpg)
'Lost' Iron Meteorites May Lurk Beneath Antarctic Ice. Scientists on Quest to Find Them.
By Tom Metcalfe published
Scientists are scouring the remote Antarctic ice cap for rare meteorites chock-full of iron and holding secrets to the history of our solar system going back some 4.5 billion years.
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