Astronomers have tracked several meteorites that dropped in on Earth back to their origin, space rocks in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Scientists traced origins of 75 meteorites back to specific regions in the asteroid belt, revealing new insights into their ...
Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...
The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than three billion years ago is changing the way scientists view the history of Earth and the planet's stages of evolution.