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

Even today, asteroids collide to create debris fields within these asteroid families, called clusters. “We now see that 12 of the iron-rich ordinary chondrite meteorites (H chondrites) originated from ...

Even today, asteroids collide to create debris fields within these asteroid families, called clusters. “We now see that 12 of the iron-rich ordinary chondrite meteorites (H chondrites ...

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

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 ...

Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from one another. Vesta has a very different ...

Nuclear pulse propulsion is a technology that would work. It was being developed in the 1960s but it was stopped because of ...

KARACHI: Residents of the port city witnessed a rare sight in the wee hours of Monday as a bright fireball shot through the sky, setting the night alight. The burning meteorite was observed by ...

Key Laboratory of Earth and Planetary Physics, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China ...