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 ...

Scientists traced origins of 75 meteorites back to specific regions in the asteroid belt, revealing new insights into their ...

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

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

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

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 ...

In that 2021 study, the research team suggested that the megaripples, which have an average height of 52 feet (16 meters) and an average wavelength (from one crest of a wave to the next) of 1,970 ...

NASA confirmed that a fireball was observed west of Dallas on Tuesday night at 10:13 p.m. Bill Cooke, the lead at NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office, said data indicated that a meteor was moving ...

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 ...

Curtin University researchers have discovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater, which could significantly redefine our understanding of the origins of life and how our planet was ...