For centuries, scientists have sought to understand the origins of meteorites that fall to Earth. Recent research has ...

NASA confirmed a meteor entered Earth's atmosphere over Georgia, disintegrating with energy equivalent to 20 tons of TNT and causing loud booms and tremors. The meteor triggered lightning sensors on ...

On Feb. 8, 1969, a massive meteorite rained a couple of tons of stones on the Mexican town of Allende, not far from the Texas border. The fireball scattered thousands of stones over a huge area. Over ...

HENRY COUNTY, Ga. — A meteor streaked across the sky over metro Atlanta on Thursday afternoon, creating a spectacular fireball and a loud boom that startled thousands of people. NASA confirmed that ...

A brilliant fireball meteor streaked across southeastern US skies on Thursday, June 26, 2025, creating a spectacular daylight display that was captured on multiple cameras and detected by ...

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 ...

CODYVILLE, Maine (WMTW) — NASA has confirmed small meteorites fell in Washington County late last month. Officials at the space agency said there were widespread reports of a sonic boom across ...

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 ...