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

"The universe is filled with a range of three-body systems, including the closest stars to Earth, the Alpha Centauri star system, and we're finding that the Kuiper Belt may be no exception!" ...

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

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 ...

Learn about the projects that hope to acquire rare metals from space by mining asteroids, creating a budding industry with ...

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

Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

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

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