Much of what scientists know about the early Solar System comes from meteorites – ancient rocks that travel through space and ...

The Lyrid meteor shower, one of the oldest known of the annual showers, peaks this year with only some small interference ...

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 ...

The Martian meteorite set to go on public display at Expo 2025 Osaka is seen in its extensive packaging as it is loaded onto a truck in Tachikawa, Tokyo, on March 26, 2025. (Mainichi/Shu Furukawa ...

Californians reported seeing a streak of light in the sky on Monday night that many believe to either be an asteroid or meteorite. The celestial occurrence was seen by people in the Bay Area at around ...

Analysis later revealed that it was a meteorite from Mars that reached Earth tens of thousands of years ago. It is about the size of a rugby ball and weighs 13 kilograms. It is one of the largest ...

They also found that the second most common group of meteorites, stony L chondrites, and the least abundant stony meteorites, LL chondrites, which are primarily from the inner main belt, trace back to ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue." Ten years ago, astronomers from various institutions, including NASA and SETI (Search for ...

A Stony Brook University professor and a trio of grad students took part in a scientific collaboration that produced the clearest, most precise images of the universe’s infancy, including the ...

"Old" Stony was a desert mining teacher, instructing over 1,000 people mining, panning, drywashing, dredging, sluicing and meteorite hunting West of the Rocky Mountains. Stony moved into the ...

Using a worldwide network of cameras and footage from citizen scientists, researchers traced dozens of meteorites back to specific asteroid families. Their findings reveal patterns in how different ...

Astronomers from SETI Institute, NASA’s Ames Research Center and Curtin University have traced the impact orbit of 75 observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the ...