Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...
In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...
Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...
Scientists traced origins of 75 meteorites back to specific regions in the asteroid belt, revealing new insights into their ...
"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 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 ...
A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...
"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...
NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...
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“That proves to be enough to start seeing some patterns in the direction from which the meteorites approach Earth.” Most meteorites originate from the asteroid belt, a region between Mars and ...