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.

Meteorites are most easily found when they have fallen on grass, sand or ice, in other words, somewhere where there are no other stones. At times, the fall of a meteorite is noticed, and it can, for ...

A complete visual reference for meteorite classification, this atlas combines high resolution optical microscope images with detailed descriptions. It provides a systematic account of meteorites and ...

The story made headlines around the world - a meteorite crashes through the roof of an Indonesian villager's home and turns out be worth millions, changing his life forever. It was suggested that ...

Discover how a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite fragment in the Natural History Museum's collection hid a secret about the origins of our solar system. On Christmas Eve 1965, a meteorite the size of a ...

"We were fascinated to uncover just how fragmented the breccia was within the Winchcombe sample we analysed. "If you imagine the Winchcombe meteorite as a jigsaw, what we saw in the analysis was ...

“I went to show my Ouma. She said it was just a stone that fell from the sky. When my mommy came, she googled it and said, ‘I ...

In his specially designed meteorite mobile, Robert Towers sets off for the beautifully remote expanse of the Nullarbor Plain — one of the best places on Earth to find meteorites. Meticulously ...

The search for a suspected meteorite has started after a bright fireball was seen travelling over the East Midlands. The University of Leicester said a new specialist camera at Space Park ...

This photo shows a meteorite from Mars discovered by the National Institute of Polar Research. (Photo courtesy of the National Institute of Polar Research/Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A "Mars rock ...

Its associated meteorite is thought to have landed in Alfreton at around 7.30pm on Sunday, September 15. The sighting was spotted by the University of Leicester's fireball camera based at Space ...