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

Murphy, curator of geology at the Denver Museum of Natural History, delights in the information for its own sake as much as he appreciates how it helps with hunting meteorites. "I really hope to find ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

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 ...

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

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

Researchers in Australia found the crater in Western ... the researchers said. The meteorite likely struck Earth at more than 22,370 miles per hour, according to the paper. Aerial perspective ...

The study’s authors believe this meteorite alone may have played an ... “Uncovering this impact and finding more from the same time period could explain a lot about how life may have got ...

The discovery bolsters the theory that meteorite impacts played an important role in Earth's early geological history ...