Recreating cosmic dust may help answer questions about how meteorites hitting Earth came to contain the organic matter that they do ...

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 ...

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 ...

Imagine walking across your field, picking up rocks like you've done a thousand times before, when suddenly you're holding a ...

Meteorites are able to conserve substance that is aged which is older than any rock on Earth, and that is why a dark and heavy rock found by a nine-year-old on a beach in Wales has scientific weight ...

South Africa probably has a lot more meteorites that haven’t been identified as such because they don’t stand out where they’ve landed or don’t look unusual enough for people to examine them.

RENO, Nev. – Robert Ward has been hunting and collecting meteorites for more than 20 years, so he knew he’d found something special in the Sierra foothills along the path of a flaming fireball that ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

For a long time, scientists assumed that Earth's water was delivered by asteroids and comets billions of years ago. This coincided with the Late Heavy Bombardment (ca. 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago), a ...

Ann Nguyen chose a risky project for her graduate studies at Washington University in St. Louis. A university team had already sifted through 100,000 grains from a meteorite to look for a particular ...

NASA scientists are turning to the Moon to solve one of Earth’s oldest mysteries: where our water came from. A new study led by the US space agency uses Moon soil collected during the ...