The Lafayette meteorite was discovered in a drawer at Purdue University in 1931, with no clear indication of how it got there ...

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

This single tiny crystal may have told us more about the red planet’s first few hundred million years than every other source ...

Pallasites are the rarest of all meteorites: less than 1% of all found meteorites are ... 2,200 pounds), making it one of the ...

The findings help reveal the story of an 800-gram (1.8 pound) meteorite that has remained a mystery for nearly 100 years, having been found in a desk drawer at Purdue University in Indiana ...

The world's second largest meteorite has been discovered in northern Argentina, a news report says. A team of experts found the 30,800 kilogram meteorite buried in the province of Chaco ...

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

Using isotopic dating, a team at Purdue University has determined that the “Lafayette Meteorite” likely interacted ... the penny-sized bit of rock somehow found its way into a Purdue ...

On Christmas Eve 1965, a meteorite the size of a Christmas turkey broke up over the Leicestershire village of Barwell. It remains the largest meteorite fall observed in Britain. Natasha Almeida, ...