Prior to the new research, scientists had traced the source of just 6 percent of the known meteorites that fell on our planet ...

Researchers found that 70% of meteorites originate from three asteroid families formed by recent collisions. They have ...

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 ...

The sight of a fireball streaking across the sky brings wonder and excitement to children and adults alike. It's a reminder ...

Over time, the meteorites that land on Earth will be able to tell the story of events happening 200 million miles away in ...

"Supporting evidence includes the existence of associated dust bands, the cosmic-ray exposure ages of H chondrite meteorites, ...

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

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Just a few smashups in the asteroid belt may account for 70 percent of Earth’s meteorites, limiting what’s known about our solar system’s history.

In the year 2,000, a Chinese dealer purchased an unusual-looking rock weighing around a ton. He cleaned it off, removing 20 ...

These meteorites would have been the fractured remains of early "unmelted asteroids," a type of planetesimal ... This is possible to gauge because planetesimals aren't all the same. The planetesimals ...

Scientists have discovered that meteorites, specifically unmelted asteroids, may have played a key role in bringing the ...