In April 2019, rare primitive meteorites fell near the town of Aguas Zarcas in northern Costa Rica. In an article published ...

Euclid has opened a new window to the cosmos with its first deep sky data release, revealing millions of galaxies, ...

For the first time, scientists are creating a geologic map of the asteroid belt—the region between Mars and Jupiter filled ...

"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 ...

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than three billion years ago is changing the way scientists view the history of Earth and the planet's stages of evolution.

with its powerful gravity pulling them closer to Earth. NASA says they know where these meteorites have landed, but they haven't been found.

One pierced a farmer's tin roof and landed inside, prompting an investigation. Two meteorite-like objects fell in a village in Maharashtra’s Beed district following which a sample was collected ...

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 ...

Researchers have discovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater, which could significantly redefine our understanding of the origins of life and how our planet was shaped. The team ...

Meteoritics is the study of meteorites — solid parts of asteroids or comets that have landed on another celestial body, notably (but not limited to) the Earth. Measuring the composition of ...