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

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 ...

The vast majority of the roughly 63,000 meteorites we have found are of a variety called stony meteorites. As the name suggests, these are made of rock. Only about 6 per cent of meteorites in ...

At times, the fall of a meteorite is noticed, and it can, for example, make a thump on the roof of a building. Stony meteorites are made up primarily of silicate minerals, whereas iron meteorites ...

He devised the cosmic-ray method of dating meteorites and was among the first to study the origin and evolution of the Martian moons.

In 1954 in Alabama, a meteorite the size of a grapefruit crashed through a roof, bounced off a radio and hit Anne Hodges as she sat in her living room. Luckily she got away with just bruising and ...

She completed her doctorate at Stony Brook University in 2018. Dr. Sims’ research focuses on planetary interiors, meteorite impacts, and the behavior of materials undergoing extreme conditions. Her ...

"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 ...