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

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 meteor astronomer and lead author Peter Jenniskens ... is an H chondrite type parent body.” ...

Scientists have discovered the world's oldest meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, dating back 3.5 billion years, ...

Many of the meteoritic fragments around Arizona's Meteor Crater (and also three other meteorites) contain bits of diamond. These inclusions provide information on the history of the meteorites ...

Finds like the one in the picture are often mistaken for meteorites. If you think you have found a "sky stone" yourself, you can use a few simple tests to narrow down whether it is possibly a genuine ...

All five nucleobases that make up DNA and RNA have now been detected in meteorite samples, according to a study published yesterday (April 26) in Nature Communications. The work used recently ...

Schoolchildren have been left awestruck by a "once in a lifetime experience" after they got to handle pieces of the moon and ...

He devised the cosmic-ray method of dating meteorites and was among the first to study the origin and evolution of the Martian moons.