There are two main types of stony meteorite: chondrites (some of the oldest materials in the solar system) and achondrites (including meteorites from asteroids, Mars and the Moon). Both chondrites and ...

The Lafayette meteorite is a type of Martian meteorite known as a nakhlite. Made from igneous, i.e. volcanic, rocks, they possibly originate from a crater on the basaltic lava planes near the ...

"We think the water came from the melting of nearby sub-surface ice called permafrost, and that the permafrost melting was ...

The team looked at two types of meteorites, known as nakhlite and chassignite. They found they were actually related to each other, and interacted with the martian crust. “With the existing ...

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

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

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