This is a good year for observing the annual Lyrid meteor shower. Its peak should come on Tuesday morning, April 22, when ...

"The fall of Aguas Zarcas was huge news in the country. No other fireball was as widely reported and then recovered as stones ...

In April 2019, rare primitive meteorites fell near the town of Aguas Zarcas in northern Costa Rica. In an article published ...

In South Africa, only 51 meteorites and 22 meteorite falls have been documented. So, Gibson and his colleagues are eager to obtain samples and learn as much as they can from the recent meteorite fall.

Traditionally, meteorite falls have been observed through visual sightings or analyzed from rare physical recoveries, often occurring hours or days after the event. However, as detailed in a recent ...

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several ...

March 31, 2025, Mountain View, CA -- In April 2019, rare primitive meteorites fell near the town of Aguas Zarcas in northern Costa Rica. In an article published online in the journal Meteoritics & ...

Geologic map of the asteroid belt. Circles identify the asteroid families from which our meteorites originate and letters mark the corresponding meteorite type. The horizontal axis ranges from short ...

Scientists have discovered the world's oldest meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, dating back 3.5 billion years, which could provide clues to the early days of life on Earth. Upheaval ...

Large asteroids are expected to hit Earth once every 2000 years. The most damaging meteorite strike in recent times was the Tunguska event, a megaton-scale explosion that destroyed a swathe of ...