The meteorite also offers fresh insights into the history of the early solar system.

Now, an international team of researchers reports in the journal Science Advances that a short time later, a more than ...

For centuries, scientists have sought to understand the origins of meteorites that fall to Earth. Recent research has ...

Geologic map of the asteroid belt. Circles identify the asteroid families from which our meteorites originate and letters mark the corresponding meteorite type. The horizontal axis ranges from short ...

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 ...

When scientists examined the rocks, they determined it belonged to one of two known types of primitive meteorites.

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously ...

When the solar system formed, a disk of gas and dust orbited the young sun. Over the course of millions of years, the dust gradually clumped together to form kilometer-sized chunks known as ...