About 100 miles separates Titusville, NJ and Peekskill, NY. So why does that matter? Well in 1992, those of us who got excited about meteorites...

From 1889 to 1923, Harvey Harlow Nininger followed the fairly traditional and well worn path of an academic, but then something changed. And very likely...

With a degree in geosciences from Princeton, author Yinan Wang brought the magic and wonder of gems, minerals, and fossils to the young adult masses...

As I was doing some spring cleaning during our first Montana winter blizzard, I found a bag of meteorites labeled at Oum Rokba. Further, there...

A strange thing about the Valera L5 meteorite, besides landing on a cow of course, is that it is currently crossing the bridge of time...

The 21st century began with a bang over Alaska and Canada. Just over two weeks into the new millennium, an amazing specimen of carbonaceous space...

Of all the different directions and angles of collecting rocks from space, the so-called Birthday Meteorite is the most personal. And due to the fact...

Within the sovereign borders of Ukraine, over 40 meteorites have been discovered with many of them witnessed falls. Many of them now also considered historic...

Iowa, as a state, joined 28 other others back on December 28, 1846. And late that same century, as Frank Cressy wrote, “Over a 15...

One year ago we lost Dave B. Gheesling, one of the greats in this gentlemanly art of meteorite collecting. Dave valued friendships and made it...

Two days after Christmas back in 1972, a meteor headed west across the sky over southwest Paraná State in Brazil. Described as an “airplane on...

On a summer morning at about eight o’clock, a large stone meteorite entered the airspace above Allegan, Michigan landing on a spot of ground known...