They are considered some of the most beautiful meteorites. There are two different types of stony-iron meteorites: pallasite and mesosiderite. A cut and polished slab of the pallasite meteorite Imilac ...

Towards the end of the month, Mercury will be visible in the western horizon, the space agency said. Californians can observe ...

Circles identify the asteroid families from which our meteorites originate and letters mark the corresponding meteorite type. The horizontal axis ranges from short orbits moving just inside the ...

The type of meteorites that could have been crucial to the origins of life are very rare, but the asteroids they come from are common. Astronomers have long had an explanation for this paradox ...

Meteor showers, eclipses and full moons will appear in California skies this summer. Mark your calendars with these dates, stargazers.

The asteroid that formed the feature was an iron meteorite, Type IAB, he added, believed to be a fragment of an impact crater on an asteroid that then came to Earth and fashioned another impact ...

More information: Peter Jenniskens et al, Review of asteroid, meteor, and meteorite‐type links, Meteoritics & Planetary ...

"Six years ago, there were just hints that different meteorite types arrived on different orbits, but now, the number of orbits (N) is high enough for distinct patterns to emerge," they wrote in ...

The Perseid meteor shower has already begun ... you could see different types of streaks. Filippenko says that it can be helpful—and entertaining—to watch the shower in a group so each ...

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 ...

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 ...