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

Until now, only a small fraction of meteorites that land on Earth had been firmly linked back to their parent body out in space – but a set of new studies has just given us compelling origin stories ...

Scientists warn that certain asteroids could become more dangerous upon entering Earth, potentially complicating asteroid ...

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 ...

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Mikael Granvik is in the Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland, and in the Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering, Luleå University of ...

Scientists are digging into the hidden makeup of carbon-rich asteroids to see whether they could one day fuel space exploration—or even be mined for valuable resources. By analyzing rare meteorites ...

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 ...

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