A mystery from millions of years ago.These H and L chondrite meteorites have arrived on our planet from three asteroid families called Massalia, Karin, and Koronis, the researchers determined, all ...

While the age hasnt been verified, the director of Western Universitys paleomagnetic and petrophysical laboratory surmises the meteorite that nearly hit a B.C. woman last fall originated from a ...

A meteorite that ripped through a roof and landed inches from a B.C. woman's head is believed to be around 470 million years old, Western researchers say. Ruth Hamilton of Golden, B.C. was woken ...

Geological clues suggest that the space rock that created Chicxulub crater was a carbonaceous chondrite meteorite. Around 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula and ...

Most meteorites that impact the Earth come from the asteroid belt—the region between Mars and Jupiter's orbits, where over a million space rocks, each more than 0.6 miles wide, circle the sun.

Most meteorites, however, originate from the solar system's main asteroid belt —a vast region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter where more than a million asteroids circle the sun.

These types of meteorites were formed in the inner solar system and “probably represented the bulk contribution of the material that formed Earth 4.6 billion years ago,” Barrett said.

Scientists with The College of New Jersey determined the 6-by-4-inch object, which weighs about 2.2 pounds, is a rare stony chondrite meteorite.

The researchers said chondrite is a particularly important type of meteorite because it provides information about material that formed in the early solar system. They estimate the rock to be ...