A tiny grain from a Martian meteorite known as Black Beauty suggests Mars may have been capable of supporting life. Researchers in Australia have uncovered what they said may be the oldest direct ...

In the 1980s, the meteorite was donated to Chicago's Field Museum, where experts confirmed its Martian origins based on data from NASA's Viking lander. There were hints toward the end of the 20th ...

A 4.45-billion-year-old grain of the mineral zircon in a Martian meteorite found in the Sahara Desert in 2011 indicates Mars may have been home to boiling hot hydrothermal systems similar to Earth ...

“Black Beauty is a wild buffet of the early Martian history. It has a lot of different pieces in it that all have their own stories,” Cavosie said. “The grains we studied in the meteorite ...