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 ...

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover is tirelessly exploring Mars and recently overcame a rocky challenge to collect another valuable ...

The NASA rover "Curiosity" discovered what scientists say is the largest ever seen organic molecules on Mars, raising ...

Geologic map of the asteroid belt. Circles identify the asteroid families ... Most meteorites originate from the asteroid belt, a region between Mars and Jupiter where over a million asteroids larger ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

Jenniskens and Devillepoix find that low iron (L chondrite) and very low iron (LL chondrite) meteorites come to us primarily from the inner main belt. Scientists have long linked the LL chondrites to ...

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

Experts have been working on mapping the ocean floor with traditional methods, sending ships across the water with sonar ...

A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...

Introduction Space exploration has never been a frontier in which technology is not strained to its limits. As human ...

The capabilities of the Zhurong rover have allowed scientists to understand the geologic history of Mars in an entirely ... generating a three-dimensional map of structures deep below, which ...