For centuries, scientists have sought to understand the origins of meteorites that fall to Earth. Recent research has ...

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 ...

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 ...

"The fall of Aguas Zarcas was huge news in the country. No other fireball was as widely reported and then recovered as stones on the ground in Costa Rica in the past 150 years." When you purchase ...

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 ...