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

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

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

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

The discovery that weather radar systems can detect meteorite falls marks a significant leap in how scientists study and ...

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than 3.5 billion years ago is changing the way ...

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

A radar site on February 21 detected several objects flying through the Earth’s atmosphere at a very high rate of speed and ...

“One other meteorite may well measure the age of the Koronis3 cluster: about 83 million years.” Jenniskens and Devillepoix also found a group of H-chondrites on steep orbits that appear to originate ...

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

The oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth (3.5 billion years old) has been discovered in Western Australia's Pilbara region ...

“One other meteorite may well measure the age of the Koronis3 cluster: about 83 million years.” Jenniskens and Devillepoix also found a group of H-chondrites on steep orbits that appear to ...