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

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

Study lead author Albert Jambon, an archaeometallurgist and professor emeritus at Sorbonne University in Paris, said the ...

Hunting for what could be the country's eleventh meteorite is like looking for a needle in a haystack, an expert says.

New connections discovered between the Sun's photosphere and CI chondrites meteorites, providing clues about the origin of materials.

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

Researchers have discovered a 3.5-billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, providing new insights into ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

New Zealand is the landing place for a growing number of meteorites, and Hawkes Bay is the latest focus. A fireball hurtled towards the ground last Wednesday night, and based on eyewitnesses and ...

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 ...