A mysterious "mudball" meteorite exploded in the skies above Costa Rica in 2019, scattering rare, water-rich rocks across the ...

The space rock is expected to zoom past our planet at a zippy 28,655 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

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

One of the most studied space rocks of all time has given scientists another big surprise, with the "mudball meteorite" Aguas ...

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

The Kirkwood gaps are explained by asteroids similarly interacting with Jupiter to leave the asteroid belt, even while their ...

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

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 ...

An asteroid discovered over 200 years ago which is roughly the size of Germany would have catastrophic consequences for life ...

For the first time, scientists are creating a geologic map of the asteroid belt—the region between Mars and Jupiter filled ...

The 3:1 resonance with Jupiter is special, because for a century it appeared that there were no asteroids in the asteroid belt that exhibited this pattern, as well as at other seemingly arbitrary ...

Scientists traced origins of 75 meteorites back to specific regions in the asteroid belt, revealing new insights into their ...