Our planet’s surface is littered with debris from the skies — and researchers have found that most come from only a few ...

Six Martian meteorites have been traced back to the craters they were ejected from on Mars millions of years ago. Finding the original sources of these alien rocks will allow us to place them in ...

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 ...

An international team led by three researchers from the CNRS, the European Southern Observatory (ESO, Europe), and Charles ...

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 ...

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 ...