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A British winemaker and amateur astronomer has created in Chile a unique variety of wine, a concoction that, according to its designer, brings to Earth the flavor of the Universe.
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Scientists are predicting that the asteroid 2012 DA14 has a small chance of colliding with Earth in eleven months. Watch the skies in February 2013!
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NASA's latest Mars mission scheduled to launch on Nov. 25, will be seeking answers to questions that have intrigued scientists for decades. The most intriguing is whether there had ever been life on Mars, and whether life on Earth originated on Mars.
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Scientists studying meteorites -- space rocks big enough to survive the tumble to earth, carrying chemicals that swirled in our solar system's primeval days -- announced they identified life's building blocks on carbonaceous chondrite samples.
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A meteorite fell through the roof of a doctor's office in Lorton, Virginia. It was a half-pound meteorite made of chondrite.
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Gerrit Blank from Essen, Germany survived a direct hit by a 30,000 mph space meteorite. Scientists have proved by chemical tests that it was indeed a rock from space.
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The old song refrain goes, “Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket,” and now a team of astronomers have found pieces of an asteroid that shuttled down to Earth.
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British scientists claim that life on our planet originated elsewhere, not on Earth. They confirm an important part of genetic material found in a meteorite is of extraterrestrial origin.
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Meteorite or satellite? While remote opinions differ as to what exactly fell to earth Saturday night in Peru bringing illness with it, the locals are positive it was one sick rock.
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Villagers in southern Peru claim they suffered a mysterious illness after a meteorite crashed to the Earth near their area. They complained of headaches and vomiting caused by a strange odor.
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A Martian meteorite, an incredibly rare object, is given to the Natural History Museum, London, to help unravel the secrets of the Red Planet.
 Meteorite chunks from Mars fell over Morocco last summer — the first time in 50 years such an event has occurred, scientists confirmed Tuesday.
The Natural History Museum in London has acquired its largest Martian meteorite, which could hold new clues to life on Mars.
 The giant asteroid Vesta, the source of about one in 20 meteorites found on Earth, got clobbered not once but twice, and it has the scars to prove it.
New evidence from carbon in meteorites suggests that the basic building blocks of life are present on Mars, a study in Science journal says.
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Some scientists have theorized a massive meteor caused, or partly caused, the global Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction 65.5 million years ago. Now other scientists are discovering genetic building blocks rode to earth on meteorites, chips of space rock big enough to survive the fiery, streaking tumble.
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Reports of a "big ball of fire" were received last night by the police after a meteorite was spotted in the sky....
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This micrograph is marked for indisputable Martian blood vessel remains found in meteorite NWA 2986, which, according...
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The recent announcement by NASA scientists and their collaborators that the GFAJ-1 strain of the Halomonadaceae...
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