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

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

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

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

Geologic map of the asteroid belt. Circles identify the asteroid families from which our meteorites originate and letters mark the corresponding meteorite type. The horizontal axis ranges from short ...

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

Geologic map of the asteroid belt. Circles identify the asteroid families from which our meteorites originate and letters mark the corresponding meteorite type. The horizontal axis ranges from ...

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

Meteorites are pieces of stone or iron that have broken off from asteroids and planets and fallen from space to Earth. Meteorites have great scientific value, and rare types of meteorites also have ...

A REPORT of the discovery of olivine in the Orgueil carbonaceous meteorite 1 aroused considerable ... and thus to exhibit the same type of single crystal diffraction pattern in the electron ...