One of these chunks of Mars eventually crashed into the Earth somewhere near Purdue and is one of the few meteorites that can be traced directly to Mars. This meteorite was rediscovered in a ...
Its unusual appearance tipped off its finder, and it soon passed into the hands of a meteorite dealer in Morocco. An American collector ended up buying the stone, but pieces of it have since been ...
Water is ubiquitous on Earth—about 70% of Earth's surface is covered by the stuff. Water is in the air, on the surface and inside rocks. Geologic evidence suggests water has been stable on Earth ...
The Lafayette Meteorite was chipped off the surface of Mars and then sped through space for roughly 11 million years. It eventually found its way into a drawer at Purdue University in 1931 and has ...
Water was there. We know it was. But piecing together when and how, and where it went, is a little trickier to figure out. But we just got a big clue: a meteorite that was ejected from Mars 11 million ...
But we just got a big clue: a meteorite that was ejected from Mars 11 million years ago and subsequently made its way to Earth reveals there was liquid water on Mars less than a billion years ago.
Crystals inside a Martian meteorite hint that there may have been plentiful hot water on Mars when the rock formed 4.45 billion years ago. The rock, nicknamed Black Beauty, was blasted into space ...
Now it’s taking on a new identity: live-in art gallery. On a warm October night during the city’s Frieze Art Fair, the curator Rajan Biljani, 40 — who has owned the property since 2014 ...
Learn how the meteorite might have been incorporated into ... interior and Exterior Gallery This mysterious iron pillar in India has been exposed to the elements for over 1,600 years.
A chunk of this Red Planet later crashed into the Earth close to Purdue University. The researchers at Purdue University rediscovered this meteorite in 1931 and it was named Lafayette Meteorite.
The devastation of a giant meteorite impact on early Earth may have allowed life to flourish, new research suggests. A study of the remnants of a 3.26 billion-year-old impact reveals that ...