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

Ten years ago, astronomers from various institutions, including NASA and SETI (Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence), set out to map the asteroid belt by tracking meteorites as they blazed ...

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

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

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 ...

Languages: English. Astronomers have revealed new sources of meteorites within the solar system's asteroid belt, helping us understand where potentially hazardous asteroids might also originate.

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

According to NASA, there is still a small probability that the 2032 asteroid could impact the moon, with the odds standing at around 1.7%. The state has recorded 14 confirmed meteorites ...

“We have higher ammonia abundances and isotopically different nitrogen in the Bennu samples than compared to other astromaterials, meteorite samples or [Asteroid] Ryugu samples,” Barnes sai ...

Geologic map of the asteroid belt ... with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue,” said meteor astronomer and lead author Peter Jenniskens of the SETI Institute and NASA Ames ...

Geologic map of the asteroid belt. Circles identify the asteroid families from which our meteorites originate and letters mark the corresponding meteorite type. The horizontal axis ranges from short ...