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 are digging into the hidden makeup of carbon-rich asteroids to see whether they could one day fuel space ...

There are few conceptions of mining in the world beyond that which is carried out on Earth. Research has always been based ...

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 ...

Based on their analysis, the team found that a type of asteroid rich in the minerals olivine and spinel could serve as an ...

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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 ...

Fragments of a rare type of meteorite have been found in the sample of material brought back from the lunar far side by China's Chang'e 6 mission, and they could help shed light on the origin of Earth ...

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 ...

The Sotheby’s auction for meteorite NWA 16788, the largest chunk of Mars found on Earth, started at $2 million. While Sotheby’s expected it to go for between $2 and $4 million, a 15-minute bidding war ...

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 ...