A meteor streaks across the sky and burns up in a flash. Sometimes, a small piece survives the journey through Earth’s ...

Radar Detection: Day and Night Most people associate meteor showers and meteorite falls with the nighttime sky, but in ...

In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid belt. Share: Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIN ...

"Like the first cartographers who traced the outline of Australia, our map reveals a continent of discoveries still ahead when more meteorite falls are recorded." Do you have a tip on a science ...

A meteor crashed into Earth's atmosphere over ... NASA estimates that approximately 48.5 tons (44 metric tons) of material falls to Earth each day. Most of this material burns up in the atmosphere ...

Eryk Miskiwcz captured footage of the meteor zooming past his car Credit: David Raleigh The object, which Miskiwcz captured on his car’s dash camera, appeared to split into a number of pieces as ...

Two classes of these chondrites, known as H and L, make up 70 percent of all meteorite falls. Scientists had suspected that the L chondrites originated from a single parent asteroid. Many have ...