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

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

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

Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but ...

Scientists believe that most meteorites originate from small bodies in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Large-scale volcanic activity does not occur in these small bodies ...

A stock image shows a meteor ... when an asteroid the size of a small building disintegrated about 12.4 miles above the city of Chelyabinsk, leaving behind a fair number of meteorites in the ...

Scientists have finally given the all-clear to Earth from a newly discovered asteroid. After two months of observations, scientists have almost fully ruled out any threat from the asteroid 2024 ...

The chances of asteroid 2024 YR4 striking Earth in 2032 have reduced from the previously thought 3.1 per cent to nearly zero per cent, NASA said. The space agency revealed that the asteroid has a ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft, on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, has its next target in its sights: the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson. Currently 45 million miles (70 million kilometers ...

Also applies to small objects such as meteors and bodies that burn up in the atmosphere as well as infrequent meteorite falls that rarely cause damage.” Asteroid 2024 YR4, detected by telescopes ...