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 ...

Kota: Four students of Mahatma Gandhi govt school, Pachpahar, a modest town in the Jhalawar district of Rajasthan, have discovered a hitherto unknown .

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

Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

Jenniskens and Devillepoix find that low iron (L chondrite) and very low iron (LL chondrite) meteorites come to us primarily from the inner main belt. Scientists have long linked the LL chondrites to ...

Most meteorites originate from the asteroid belt, a region between Mars and Jupiter where over a million asteroids larger than 1 kilometer circle the Sun. Those rocks originate from a small number of ...

Most meteorites originate from the asteroid belt, a region between Mars and Jupiter where over a million asteroids larger than 1 kilometer circle the Sun. Those rocks originate from a small number ...

Emily Costello, a planetary scientist at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, was selected by NASA as one of eight ...

Donaldjohanson formed about 150 million years ago when a much larger asteroid broke apart. Since then, its orbit and spin ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit ...