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

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

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 ...

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

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

Anything that survives the impact is a meteorite. Where do meteorites come from? Most are from the asteroid belt, a jumble of rocks between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. They range in size from ...

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

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

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

Circles identify the asteroid families from which our meteorites originate and letters mark the ... “Asteroid Hertha doesn’t look anything like its debris. Hertha is covered by dark rocks that were ...