The asteroid 2024 BX1’s trip toward Earth ended in a fireball Jan. 21, 2024. Soon after, experts rushed to locate pieces of the resulting meteorite. The fragments — about the size of a walnut — were ...

Aubrite meteorite from asteroid 2024 BX1, photographed at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin by Laura Kranich, a Freie Universität MSc student and member of the Arbeitskreis Meteore, who participated in ...

Researchers pose with a fragment of asteroid 2024 BX1 they found in Germany. The rock is a very rare type of meteorite called an aubrite. Cevin Dettlaff Just after midnight on January 21, a roughly ...

Fragments of an asteroid that exploded over Germany on Jan. 21 and were recovered five days later have been confirmed to be a rare space rock type that could help shed light on Earth's origins. As ...

Meteorite hunters have successfully recovered fragments of an asteroid that impacted Earth over Berlin, Germany, on Sunday (Jan. 21). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Jenniskens’ collaborators at the Museum für Naturkunde officially announced that the first examinations of one of these pieces with an electron beam microprobe prove the typical mineralogy and ...

Researchers pose with a fragment of asteroid 2024 BX1 they found in Germany. The rock is a very rare type of meteorite called an aubrite. (Cevin Dettlaff) Analyses revealed the asteroid was an ...