Until now, only a small fraction of meteorites that land on Earth had been firmly linked back to their parent body out in space – but a set of new studies has just given us compelling origin stories ...

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 ...

The asteroid 2024 BX1’s trip toward Earth ended in a fireball Jan. 21, 2024. Soon after, experts rushed to locate pieces of the resulting meteorite. The fragments — about the size of a walnut — were ...

Mars has a distinct structure in its mantle and crust with discernible reservoirs, and this is known thanks to meteorites that scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and ...

Chang’e-6 lunar samples reveal rare meteorite fragments, indicating early asteroid impacts delivered water and organic compounds to the Moon and Earth, providing insight into the Solar System’s ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. A giant ...

“Antarctica, a desert of ice, provides an ideal background for meteorite recovery — go to the right place, and any rock you find must have fallen from the sky,” said Valdes, who visited the region as ...

Seventy percent of meteorites that hit Earth today can be traced back to only three families of asteroids a finding that overturns decades of hypotheses regarding the randomness of cosmic rubble and ...

Martian meteorite is formally referred to as Northwest Africa 7034 but is also going by the nickname “black beauty.” The exquisite looking dark rock above is actually a first-of-its-kind Martian ...

Fragments of a rare type of meteorite have been found in the sample of material brought back from the lunar far side by China ...

The Peabody Museum of Natural History is now home to one of the largest and most diverse meteorite collections in the world — one that has drawn interest from researchers around the globe. The ...

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 ...