The unlikely journey that brought the Lafayette Meteorite to Purdue University’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and ...

According to a new analysis of the Lafayette Meteorite, minerals within it formed in the presence of water 742 million years ...

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

The essential ingredient for life, water, appeared on both planets around 4.4 billion years ago, new research indicates.

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

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

A rock that formed around 4.5 billion years ago on Mars before being blasted into space by a meteor strike and making its way ...

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

The team analyzed meteorites from a large space rock designated as NWA7034 or “Black Beauty.” While all Martian meteorites ...

The earliest known direct evidence of hot water activity on Mars has been found, pointing to the possibility that the planet ...

Despite the team's success in dating the water-rock interaction, the researchers don't think Mars was teeming with water at ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence of what could be the oldest hot water activity on Mars inside an ancient meteorite that ...