A pair of papers published today in Nature look at the origins of many meteorites that have fallen to Earth. By examining the ...

An international team has successfully demonstrated that 70% of all known meteorite falls originate from just three young asteroid families. These families were produced by three recent collisions ...

Most of Earth’s meteorites can be linked to just a few collisions within the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, two new studies report, including a particularly cataclysmic impact event ...

In fact, this particular asteroid family dominates nearly 40% of all meteorites that have fallen to Earth, with two other families of space rocks named as the source of most Earth-bound meteorites.

El Médano 128 meteorite, an ordinary chondrite (group L), found in the Atacama desert in 2011 by a team of researchers from the Centre de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de l ...

But geologists have uncovered some strange things about this moment in history. For one, sedimentary rocks from that time have a stunningly high amount of meteorite debris. And that debris shows ...

Around 466 million years ago, a lot of meteorites started hitting Earth. We know this because many impact craters formed in a geologically brief period. In the same period we also find deposits of ...

Read the paper: Young asteroid families as the primary source of meteorites Ordinary chondrites are divided into three chemically and mineralogically distinct categories according to their iron ...

Most meteorites are bits of asteroid, which are themselves leftovers from the formation of the solar system. What is the difference between a meteor, a meteorite, a meteoroid and an asteroid?

When a strange meteorite crashes down in his backyard and turns his father into a brain-eating zombie, Bucky jumps at the chance. Accompanied by his mute best friend, a sarcastic production runner ...

Scientists have found where most meteorites comes from. One of them, known as the Massalia family, is responsible for 37 per ...