A mysterious "mudball" meteorite exploded in the skies above Costa Rica in 2019, scattering rare, water-rich rocks across the ...

Meteorites are primarily stony chondrites, but also include iron-rich achondrites and pallasites. Studying meteors provides ...

"The fall of Aguas Zarcas was huge news in the country. No other fireball was as widely reported and then recovered as stones ...

In April 2019, rare primitive meteorites fell near the town of Aguas Zarcas in northern Costa Rica. In an article published ...

"It penetrated deep into Earth's atmosphere, until the surviving mass shattered at 25 km above the Earth's surface where it ...

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

This event marked the largest fall of its kind since the Murchison meteorite in Australia in 1969, with a total of 27 kilograms of rocks recovered.

Scientists traced origins of 75 meteorites back to specific regions in the asteroid belt, revealing new insights into their ...

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 ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue." Ten years ago, astronomers from various institutions, including NASA and SETI (Search for ...