When a mysterious meteorite fell in Algeria in 2023, scientists didn't know that it was a special rock. Earth is battered by several meteorites every year. Most of them are remnants of a celestial ...

For years, scientists have puzzled over one big question: where do meteorites come from? These rocky visitors crash into Earth from space, but tracing their paths back to specific locations in the ...

By tracking the paths of falling meteorites, astronomers can now trace where many of these space rocks originally came from. “This has been like solving a decade-long mystery,” said Peter ...