More than just dazzling streaks of light as meteors, these ancient fragments are among the oldest materials in our solar system, originating from planets, asteroids, and comets. Most meteorites ...

Meteorites are primarily stony chondrites, but also include iron-rich achondrites and pallasites. Studying meteors provides ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

Mar. 17, 2025 — New modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit and spin ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar ...

In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

For the first time, scientists are creating a geologic map of the asteroid belt—the region between Mars and Jupiter filled ...