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

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

“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 ...

“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 ...

Jenniskens and Devillepoix find that low iron (L chondrite) and very low iron (LL chondrite) meteorites come to us primarily from the inner main belt. Scientists have long linked the LL chondrites to ...

Scientists have created a new 3D map of "mega ripples" on the seafloor caused by the Chicxulub asteroid impact that wiped out ...

Cindy Jenson-Elliott releases her 18th children’s nonfiction book, ‘The Doomsday Detectives,’ about the dinosaurs’ extinction ...

Even the more fortunate among us felt a kind of need we'd become unaccustomed to: Needs that couldn’t be met. Isolation also ...

The report outlines a handful of mission concepts which ... and OSIRIS-REx (2016), which sampled material from an asteroid and brought it to Earth. One upcoming New Frontiers mission is NASA ...