Prior to the new research, scientists had traced the source of just 6 percent of the known meteorites that fell on our planet

Meteorites - rocks that fall to Earth from space - have pelted our planet from its birth about 4.5 billion years ago to today, often causing scant damage but sometimes triggering cataclysms. But from where exactly are these space rocks coming?

A new breakthrough in the study of meteorites has revealed that over 70% of meteorites that strike Earth come from just three asteroid families. This discovery, outlined in recent research published in Nature and Astronomy and Astrophysics,