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A mysterious explosion that rocked Nicaragua's crowded capital Managua, creating a large crater, appears to have been caused by a meteorite.

• 08 сентября 2014, 13:23

2014 Perseid meteor shower will be visible in Kazakhstan at night today, August 13.

• 12 августа 2014, 21:21

Skywatchers in the United States and Canada could see a one-of-a-kind meteor shower late Friday night and early Saturday, astronomers say.

• 21 мая 2014, 13:51

A corner of South Korea is in the grip of a frenzied hunt for valuable space souvenirs, following a rare meteor shower there last week.

• 18 марта 2014, 13:20

The meteor that injured over 1,500 people when it exploded and showered debris over Russia in February may have had a close shave with the Sun earlier.

• 27 августа 2013, 14:17

The earliest iron artefacts ever found -- funeral beads strung around bodies in a 5,000-year-old Egyptian cemetery -- were made from a meteorite.

• 20 августа 2013, 18:56

Kazakhstan residents can witness the peak of the Perseid meteor shower at night on August 11 and 12.

• 12 августа 2013, 16:54

Stargazers will be treated to a spectacular fireball show early next week when Earth hits a belt of comet debris known as the Perseids.

• 09 августа 2013, 12:11

Kazakhstan has no system for warning or prevention of falling of celestial bodies: KazKosmos.

• 12 марта 2013, 16:59

NASA, universities and private groups in the US are working on asteroid warning systems that can detect objects from space like the one that struck Russia last week with a blinding flash and mighty boom.

• 19 февраля 2013, 16:59

Scientists have discovered fragments of the meteor that spectacularly plunged over Russia's Ural Mountains creating a shockwave that injured 1,200 people and damaged thousands of homes.

• 18 февраля 2013, 13:22

Divers scoured the bottom of a Russian lake on Saturday for fragments of a meteorite that plunged to Earth in a blinding fireball whose shockwaves injured 1,200 people and damaged thousands of homes.

• 16 февраля 2013, 18:50

A plunging meteor which exploded with a blinding flash above central Russia , set off a shockwave that shattered windows and hurt almost 1,000 people in an event unprecedented in modern times.

• 16 февраля 2013, 11:41

A meteor shower caused explosions in the lower atmosphere above Russia's Urals region on Friday, blowing out windows in some areas and leaving several people injured.

• 15 февраля 2013, 12:48

A fist-sized meteorite nicknamed "Black Beauty" could unlock vital clues to the evolution of Mars from the warm and wet place it once was to its current cold and dry state.

• 04 января 2013, 18:40

The apogee of Perseids meteor shower will fall on the night of August 12.

• 11 августа 2012, 10:49

Paleontologist Yevgeniy Yepanchev says that Kazakh steppe has come into existence as a result of the fall of two huge meteorites.

• 14 июня 2011, 12:34