Scientists traced origins of 75 meteorites back to specific regions in the asteroid belt, revealing new insights into their ...

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

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

Meteorites are primarily stony chondrites, but also include iron-rich achondrites and pallasites. Studying meteors provides ...

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

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 ...

For the first time, scientists are creating a geologic map of the asteroid belt—the region between Mars and Jupiter filled ...

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

And the results shocked them. The experts observed high concentrations of smelted ore and meteoric iron that appeared to have come from a single space rock. The discovery was made in Poland's ...

Four items of jewellery, three bracelets and a pin, containing a form of iron only found in meteorites were pulled from Early Iron Age burials. The graves, in Częstochowa-Raków and nearby ...

Archaeologists have discovered iron objects at six sites in Tamil Nadu, dating back to 2,953–3,345 BCE, or between 5,000 to 5,400 years old. This suggests that the process of extracting, smelting, ...