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Bright trails of light streaked across the night sky in the Northern Hemisphere as the annual Perseid meteor shower peaked early on Sunday, August 13. With only a sliver of moon in the sky, the conditions were ideal for seeing lots of meteors.

Both a lunar eclipse and meteor shower will pass across our skies this weekend.

The yearly Geminid meteor shower is returning, reaching its pinnacle on the evening of Wednesday, December 14 and early morning on Thursday, December 15.

A dazzling sight illuminated a still Norwegian night, and it left concerned locals stumped.

Hundreds of people across northern Britain watched an unusual fireball lighting up the night sky.

It's been the province of action movies, sci-fi thrillers, and at least one actual mass extinction event - the unstoppable asteroid heading towards Earth.

Australia's winter sky is set to be illuminated by three colourful meteor showers for the next four nights.

A meteorite that struck Earth 50,000 years ago hit so hard it formed a unique kind of diamond, and researchers say it could signal a technological leap forward.

Taken using time-lapse, a bright green streak could be seen lighting up the clear night sky at 8.06pm on Thursday.

One of the 18 golden segments of the James Webb Space Telescope's giant mirror was hit by a micrometeoroid, according to an update from NASA.

New findings by a group of scientists in Japan indicate the elementary components of life on Earth came from meteorites.

Researchers discovered the first known interstellar meteor to ever hit Earth, according to a recently released United States Space Command document

A treasure trove from outer-space could be locked deep under the ice in Antarctica.

Scientists confirmed the four billion-year-old meteorite contains no evidence of ancient, primitive Martian life.

A meteor that caused a loud boom heard in western Pennsylvania exploded in the atmosphere with a blast equivalent to 30 tonnes of TNT, according to NASA.

A large and noisy meteor flashed across the night sky in Norway on Sunday, creating a spectacular light show and generating gusts of wind which blew open doors and hatches.

An object has streaked across Queensland's night sky on Sunday, with several eyewitness reports and multiple videos capturing the spectacle.

Australian star gazers can look forward to a spectacular meteor shower display over the next three days.

A meteor that blazed brightly across the Canberra sky last night is just a taster of what Australians can expect to see later this week.

Queensland police managed to capture the moment on camera while driving through the state's Glitter Strip last night.

A fireball that lit up the sky over the United Kingdom and Northern Europe on February 28 was an extremely rare type of meteorite.

There were multiple sightings of a meteor burning up over Melbourne last night.

An Indonesian man has had millions of dollars literally fall out of the sky for him.

In the early hours of tomorrow, the Leonid meteor shower will send shooting stars across the sky.

A high-pressure mineral found in a lunar meteorite is helping to explain what happens to within the extreme pressures of the Earth's mantle, scientists say.

A 12-million-year-old meteorite that fell to Earth in January 2018 is covered in more than 2600 organic compounds, according to new research.

Australian star gazers can look forward to a celestial treat over the next two days when the Orionid meteor shower peaks.

Night owls in Western Australia have captured a stunning green glow shoot across the evening sky.

Residents across two Australian states have been stunned by an unidentified flying object, believed to be a piece of space junk, spotted soaring across the sky

These photos taken during the Eta Aquariid meteor shower showcase the beauty of the astronomical phenomenon, seen most clearly in the early hours of the morning from the Southern Hemisphere.

Stargazers are expected to be on high alert tonight, with a meteor shower expected to be in full view.

A group of Russian scientists have offered a new theory which could explain one of history's most enduring astronomical mysteries - the Tunguska event.

Scientists have been able to look inside an interstellar comet that entered our solar system at the end of last year.

Australians bored in social isolation should look to the heavens this week for some light relief as the Lyrid meteor shower prepares to dazzle the night skies.

The world's oldest asteroid strike has been identified in outback Western Australia and may have helped lift the planet out of a global deep freeze known as a Snowball Earth, scientists say.

A meteorite that crash landed near Melbourne fifty years ago was carrying space dust older than the solar system itself, new research suggests.

The Orionid meteor shower will peak tonight, sprinkling remnants of Halley's Comet in Earth's atmosphere to create a dazzling display.

People living in Central New York who reported hearing a loud, fearful boom on Monday night can rest relatively easily - it was likely just a fiery rock from the far flung reaches of outer space.

The astronomical event of the year is just around the corner. Dubbed the Persied meteor shower, the mesmerising light show occurs every August as the Swift–Tuttle comet shoots past Earth.

A mysterious orange glowing fireball streaked across the sky in Florida overnight.

A heavenly display from the skies over Adelaide and Victoria.

A meteorite has been captured falling to earth in Central Australia by Northern Territory Police CCTV cameras.

If witnessing a “super blood wolf moon” wasn’t enough of a rare astronomical display, some eagle eye observers captured a meteoroid striking the lunar orb during the eclipse.

Christmas has come early for Australia's budding astronomers, with stargazers treated to not one but two space spectacles last night.

A loud sonic boom could be heard as the meteor streaked across the wheatbelt region around Perth last night.

A 2.1 kiloton explosion over a US Air Force base in remote Iceland late last month is believed to have been the result of a meteor.

Debris from a meteorite that plunged to Earth in 2008 offers strong evidence of a lost planet that once drifted through our solar system, a new study has found.

A huge fireball has been filmed in the UK hurtling towards the earth, seemingly on a collision course with the camera.

A blazing fireball lit up the dark skies of Arctic Finland for five seconds, giving off what scientists said was "the glow of 100 full moons" and igniting hurried attempts to find the reported meteorite.

A subtle green glow brightening the night sky has exploded in a ball of light as a meteor streaked over the US.