In 1931, the Lafayette meteorite was rediscovered in a drawer at Purdue University. Since then, it has become a focus for ...

Researchers have discovered potentially the oldest evidence of hot water activity on Mars through the analysis of a 4.45 ...

New research reveals that 70% of meteorites that strike Earth originate from three young asteroid families in the main ...

Scientists have uncovered tantalizing evidence suggesting that Mars may have hosted hot springs some 4.5 billion years ago, ...

The study identified when water interacted with the meteorite and established that the dating was unaffected by events after ...

Scientists have traced the origins of the Lafayette Meteorite back to Mars, dating its water-altered minerals to 742 million ...

Mars was a frigid, dry, dead world, just like it is now. Something slammed into the unfortunate planet, sending debris into ...

An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of ...

"We can identify meteorites by studying what minerals are present in them and the relationships between these minerals inside the meteorite," says Tremblay. "Meteorites are often denser than Earth ...

Prof Bridges said: "You can identify a meteorite as classically it has a dark shiny fusion crust which will look really quite different from anything surrounding it. "It doesn't look like ...