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

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

For the first time, scientists are creating a geologic map of the asteroid belt—the region between Mars and Jupiter filled ...

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

In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

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 ...

He shared key facts about the asteroid with CBS News during the below conversation, which has been edited for clarity. When would the asteroid hit Earth? This asteroid passes us by every four years.

Anything that survives the impact is a meteorite. Where do meteorites come from? Most are from the asteroid belt, a jumble of rocks between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. They range in size from ...

There are so many asteroids orbiting between Mars and Jupiter — millions of them — that this region is known as the main asteroid belt. They sometimes get pushed out of the belt and can end up ...

They're often called the remnants of the solar system's formation, composed of rock and metal, and usually orbiting between Mars and Jupiter in the asteroid belt. While these celestial objects are ...