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

A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the asteroid belt. By building a global network of sky cameras and combining it with ...

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

The near-Earth asteroid 2025 BC10 will pass safely near our planet on Saturday (April 5). The Virtual Telescope Project will ...

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 ...

"We now have the first outlines of a geologic map of the asteroid belt." Ten years ago, Jenniskens teamed up with astronomer Hadrien Devillepoix of Curtin University and colleagues in Australia to ...

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

Most of the time these asteroids remain restrained within that interplanetary belt by Jupiter's gravitational field, unable to coalesce into a larger body. But occasionally another asteroid or the ...

Anything that survives the impact is a meteorite. Where do meteorites come from? Most are from the asteroid belt, a jumble of rocks between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. They range in size from ...

They're often called the remnants of the solar system's formation, composed of rock and metal, and usually orbiting between ...

"The universe is filled with a range of three-body systems, including the closest stars to Earth, the Alpha Centauri star system, and we're finding that the Kuiper Belt may be no exception!