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….

For centuries, humans have sought to learn whether life exists beyond Earth. That answer is closer than ever to fulfillment, and an ASU team is working on a key part of that quest with NASA’s backing. Thousands of exoplanets (planets around other stars) have been discovered in the past decade, and the next decade likely…

We are pleased to announce that Kera Tucker, a graduate student in the Center for Meteorite Studies at ASU, has successfully defended her Master's thesis, entitled "Hydrogen Isotope Systematics of Nominally Anhydrous Phases in Martian Meteorites".  Based on 113 individual SIMS (Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer) analyses on 8 different martian meteorites, Kera’s research concludes that…

Throughout his career Ronald Greeley was passionate about exploring Mars, so it’s fitting that the late Arizona State University professor’s name will grace maps of the Red Planet. A large, ancient crater – nearly as wide as Arizona – now carries the name of Greeley Crater, in honor of the Mars science pioneer and longtime…