Astronomers have tracked several meteorites that dropped in on Earth back to their origin, space rocks in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

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

The triple star system is sending comets, asteroids and meteors our way, and the number of interstellar objects entering the solar system will rise.

In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...

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 ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — New modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit and spin ...

The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.

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

Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from one another. Vesta has a very different ...