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

Astronomers have tracked several meteorites that dropped in on Earth back to their origin, space rocks in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

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

The bit of falling space rock, caught on camera in July ... trip to Earth without burning up in the atmosphere, they are called meteorites, NASA says. Meteors, and meteorites are often called ...

The spacecraft is set to spend a little under a year traveling to an asteroid called 2022 OB5 ... was not specifically addressed in the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which is the primary document ...

The Revelstoke meteorite is in a group called CI chondrites ... these fragments from outer space would not have arrived into a landscape punctuated with glaciers and trees.

And that 100% of your DNA may come from outer space ... first pieces of evidence that space rocks are packed with organic compounds was the Murchison meteorite, which fell in Australia ...