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

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

2 new papers trace the origin of most meteorites to just a handful of asteroid breakup events – and possibly even individual ...

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 ...

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

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

Meteorites - rocks that fall to Earth from space - have pelted our planet from its birth about 4.5 billion years ago to today ...

Scientists have found where most meteorites comes from. One of them, known as the Massalia family, is responsible for 37 per ...

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.

An unusual concentration of impact craters suggests that they may have been caused by the breakup of an asteroid that created ...

An asteroid was grabbed by the Earth this month, creating what astronomers are calling a temporary “mini-moon.” ...

Two new studies show that the majority of meteorites originate from just one family of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter.