The largest of the six asteroids, 363305 (2002 NV16), has an estimated diameter of between 140 and 310 meters (up to 580 feet ...

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

Scientists have uncovered that over 70 percent of meteorites reaching Earth come from just three asteroid families in the ...

New research traces the origin of most meteorites to just a handful of asteroid breakup events – and possibly even individual ...

Over time, the meteorites that land on Earth will be able to tell the story of events happening 200 million miles away in ...

Meteorites - rocks that fall to Earth from space - have pelted our planet from its birth about 4.5 billion years ago to today ...

Prior to the new research, scientists had traced the source of just 6 percent of the known meteorites that fell on our planet ...

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An asteroid was grabbed by the Earth this month, creating what astronomers are calling a temporary “mini-moon.” ...

Spread the loveFor decades, Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, was considered a dry and dusty world. But recent ...

An international team led by three researchers from the CNRS, the European Southern Observatory (ESO, Europe), and Charles ...

了解明亮流星及其陨石样本的起源是天文学中最古老的问题之一，在更大尺度上对人类产生影响。到目前为止，只有大约6%的陨石坠落与其来源（月球、火星或小行星（4）灶神星）有密切关联。