The Philae lander has awoken on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, and is communicating via the Rosetta orbiter! Philae spent ten years aboard Rosetta, travelling the 405 million kilometres (just over 251 million miles) between Earth and the spacecraft's cometary destination. Shortly after landing on the comet in mid-November of 2014, the lander went into hibernation.  The Rosetta…

Three scientists in Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) — Philip Christensen, Mikhail Zolotov, and Everett Shock — are involved with NASA's newly announced robotic mission to investigate whether conditions suitable for life exist at Jupiter's moon Europa. The mission, scheduled for launch in the 2020s, will follow up on the…

March 1st through August 31st at the Verde Valley Archaeology Center, a special exhibit features meteorites in prehistoric cultures, including the 135 lb meteorite found in a Camp Verde Sinagua ruin in 1915!  Click here for more details! Watch the exhibit's opening remarks, given by Center for Meteorite Studies Collection Curator Dr. Laurence Garvie, below!

As one of this year’s Fulbright Scholars, Arizona State University cosmochemist Meenakshi Wadhwa will have an opportunity to work at India’s premier research institute for the space sciences. She will be working on collaborative research involving studies of a unique Mars meteorite to understand the origin and history of water on Mars. “It is my…

The Center for Meteorite Studies is pleased to welcome our new Assistant Director, Dr. Devin Schrader.  Dr. Schrader's research focusses on understanding the thermal and aqueous processes that shape meteorites on their parent bodies, through petrologic and geochemical studies.  He is also involved in the sample science support for NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return mission. Dr….