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 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 ...

Meteorites are primarily stony chondrites, but also include iron-rich achondrites and pallasites. Studying meteors provides ...

Our own planet, for example, had a devastating rendezvous with its sister protoplanet, and remnants of that interaction can still be found deep in the Earth’s lower mantle. Meteorites littered across ...

An amateur astronomer in Denmark has advised the local population in Zealand town Lumsås to check their houses and gardens ...

When a mysterious meteorite fell in Algeria in 2023, scientists didn't know that it was a special rock. Earth is battered by several meteorites every year. Most of them are remnants of a celestial ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Asteroid 2024 YR4, initially thought to pose a threat to Earth, will not impact the planet in 2032, though a collision with the moon remains possible. It follows ...

In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation triggered a fervid series of observations of the object — possibly as ...