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

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

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 ...

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

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been ...

Countless asteroids in our solar system, some close, some far — but did you know that some of these space rocks have names?

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 ...

Jenniskens and Devillepoix find that low iron (L chondrite) and very low iron (LL chondrite) meteorites come to us primarily from the inner main belt. Scientists have long linked the LL chondrites to ...