Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously ...

Scientists at the University of New Mexico have played a key role in identifying a rare, 4.1-billion-year-old Martian ...

Geochemists have identified a mysterious space rock found in Sweden, and believe it’s a type of meteorite never before seen on Earth. They published their report in the journal Nature Communications.

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 ...

One fragment crashed into a bedroom. Others were recovered across Houston.

When the Solar System formed, a disk of gas and dust orbited the young Sun. Over the course of millions of years, the dust gradually clumped together to form kilometre-sized chunks known as ...

Though the asteroid impactor struck Earth and likely spelled the end of the Age of Dinosaurs about 66 million years ago, researchers are still uncovering more about it. Researchers from the University ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Oct 29 (Reuters) - A meteorite found in 2022 in the Sahara in Mali formed in the Martian crust at ...

It’s not often that a meteorite lands in a major metropolis. It’s even rarer that meteorite samples are able to be collected almost immediately after landing. And yet on March 21, both things happened ...

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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 ...