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

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.

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

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 ...

A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...

Scientists traced origins of 75 meteorites back to specific regions in the asteroid belt, revealing new insights into their ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar ...