Thursday, March 20 marked the beginning of spring with the vernal equinox, but what does this really mean? To understand, let ...

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 ...

Scientists traced origins of 75 meteorites back to specific regions in the asteroid belt, revealing new insights into their ...

A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...

However, not all of those celestial bodies survived, and a new analysis of a the meteorite NWA 15915 shows that it likely originated from a world that was similar to Mercury in its composition—but not ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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