The Yale Peabody Museum is now home to one of the oldest and most valuable scientifically significant meteorite collection. Their second donation — this trove from the Planetary Studies Foundation ...

Part of my personal cosmic journey will come to an end on July 22, 2023, when my private meteorite collection is sold by Heritage Auctions of Dallas. I became entirely smitten with meteorites at the ...

Meteorites are like a time machine and spacecraft all in one. Discover how our scientists use rare specimens in the meteorite collection we care for to understand the history of Earth and our solar ...

A collection of meteorites has been added to James Madison University’s Mineral Museum. The Richard F. West Meteorite Collection was unveiled on Friday and includes everything from primitive ...

Every day, about 48.5 tons of space rock hurtle towards Earth. Meteorites that fall into the ocean are never recovered. But the ones that crash on land can spark debates about legal ownership.

The Antarctic Meteorite Collection at the National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR) in Japan has been recognized as a Geo-collection by the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS). An IUGS ...

This post was updated Feb. 28 at 2:10 p.m. Jason Utas has long been in the craft of buying and selling meteorites. But Utas – a graduate student studying earth, planetary and space sciences – said ...

Scientists are decoding fragile meteorites to uncover which small asteroids could become future treasure troves for space ...

Photo Credit: Tim McCoy A thin section of a meteorite from the Miller Range, Antarctica, looks a bit like a stained glass window. Peter Rejcek, Antarctic Sun: Field researchers in Antarctica have ...

Dean chats with Scott VanBommel, meteorite hunter and senior research scientist at Washington University in St. Louis. Listen to learn what it takes to find a meteorite (you'll have to start looking ...