The destructive power of asteroids is undeniable — just ask the dinosaurs. New research suggests a huge space rock that ...

Earth is constantly getting pummeled by meteorites. We are unaware of most of them, as they burn up in our atmosphere before ...

"Meteorites fall into two broad categories ... of metre-sized fragments by the largest old asteroid families (for example, Flora and Vesta)." Of particular interest is the Massalia family of ...

The space rock that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period caused a global calamity that ...

they end up being found by meteorite hunters in a field somewhere. Massalia, for example, is a family of asteroids that orbits about 2.41 times farther than Earth from the Sun. Based on ...

Most of Earth’s meteorites can be linked to just a few collisions within the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, two new studies report, including a particularly cataclysmic impact event ...

The origin of most meteorites finally revealed Date: October 16, 2024 Source: CNRS Summary: An international team has successfully demonstrated that 70% of all known meteorite falls originate from ...

El Médano 128 meteorite, an ordinary chondrite (group L), found in the Atacama desert in 2011 by a team of researchers from the Centre de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de l ...

Earth is constantly getting pummeled by meteorites. We are unaware of most of them, as they burn up in our atmosphere before they hit the ground. Every now and again, though, something larger gets ...

"We think of meteorite impacts as being disastrous and detrimental to life — the best example being the Chicxulub impact (at Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula) that led to the extinction of not only ...