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 ...

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 ...

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

About 11 million years ago, an asteroid collided with Mars, sending plumes of debris beyond the planet’s atmosphere. One of those meteorites eventually succumbed to Earth’s gravitational pull ...

A meteorite from Mars has a history of interacting with water, probably as a result of volcanic activity melting ice on the Red Planet over 700 million years ago. The findings help reveal the ...

One of these chunks of Mars eventually crashed into the Earth and is one of the few meteorites that can be traced directly to Mars. This meteorite was rediscovered in a drawer at Purdue University ...

Several bits of Mars have rained down on Earth as meteorites, one of which is the subject of a new study. Researchers from Purdue University have confirmed the so-called Lafayette Meteorite ...