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 ...

For years, scientists have puzzled over one big question: where do meteorites come from? These rocky visitors crash into Earth from space, but tracing their paths back to specific locations in the ...

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The crater formed more than 3.5 billion years ago, making it the ...

The Martian meteorite set to go on public display at Expo 2025 Osaka is seen in its extensive packaging as it is loaded onto a truck in Tachikawa, Tokyo, on March 26, 2025. (Mainichi/Shu Furukawa ...

So far, 75 meteorites have had their paths recorded well enough to trace their origins. Most of these meteorites came from the asteroid belt, where over a million asteroids orbit the sun.