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

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

The researchers tracked the source of 75 meteorite fireballs captured on film around the globe by scientific all-sky cameras, doorbell cameras, and dashboard cameras. "That proves to be enough to ...

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 ...

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