Meteorites
Selling Rocks from Outer Space: an Interview with ‘Meteorite Man’ Geoff Notkin
What's the oldest thing you've ever held in your hand? A piece of petrified wood? A fossilized trilobite? A chunk…
Catastrophic Impacts Made Life on Earth Possible
How did life on Earth originally develop from random organic compounds into living, evolving cells? It may have relied on…
Student Science Thunders to Space from NASA Wallops
A Terrier-Improved Malemute suborbital rocket carrying experiments developed by university students nationwide in the RockSat-X program was successfully launched at…
Citizen Scientists Hunt for Impact Craters in Persia
Citizen scientists have discovered planets beyond our Solar System and established morphological classifications for thousands of galaxies (e.g., the Planet Hunters and…
Possible Meteorite Fragments from 1908 Tunguska Explosion Found
The 1908 explosion over the Tunguska region in Siberia has always been an enigma. While the leading theories of what…
Weekly Space Hangout – April 26, 2013
We had an action packed Weekly Space Hangout on Friday, with a vast collection of different stories in astronomy and…
Cosmic C.S.I.: Searching for the Origins of the Solar System in Two Grains of Sand
"The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches…
Meteorite Crashes Through Roof of a House in Connecticut
A rock that crashed through a house in Connecticut last weekend has been confirmed to be a meteorite. Homeowner Larry…
Earth is the Most Exotic Place In The Universe
I'm often asked by students in my community education astronomy classes whether any new elements have been found in outer…
Giant Ancient Impact Crater Confirmed in Iowa
A monster lurks under northeastern Iowa. That monster is in the form of a giant buried basin, the result of…