It specialises in the fields of meteoritics and planetary science.

The journal was established as Meteoritics in 1953, adopting its current name when the scope was broadened in 1996.

Timothy Jull (Arizona Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Laboratory).

The journal was established in 1953 as the successor of the Notes and Contributions that were published on behalf of the Meteoritical Society in Popular Astronomy, from 1933 to 1951.

[2] Coverage encompasses planets, natural satellites, interplanetary dust, interstellar medium, lunar samples, meteors, meteorites, asteroids, comets, craters, and tektites and comes from multiple disciplines, such as astronomy, astrophysics, physics, geophysics, chemistry, isotope geochemistry, mineralogy, Earth science, geology, or biology The journal publishes original research papers, invited reviews, editorials, and book reviews.