Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

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

A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...

Traditionally, meteorite falls have been observed through visual sightings or analyzed from rare physical recoveries, often occurring hours or days after the event. However, as detailed in a recent ...

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 ...

"That proves to be enough to start seeing some patterns in the direction from which the meteorites approach Earth." Most meteorites originate from the asteroid belt, a region between Mars and ...

The extreme pressure caused by a meteorite collision fractures the rock below in a branching pattern, leaving chunks that are shaped like cones, with the tapered end pointing toward the center of the ...

Archaeologists have discovered 'extraterrestrial metal' used to create jewellery in ancient burial sites in Poland.