Found in a drawer Thanks to research, quite a bit is known about the Lafayette Meteorite's origin story. It was ejected from the surface of Mars about 11 million years ago by an impact event. "We ...

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 ...

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

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

A small, unassuming meteorite measuring just 10 centimeters is shedding light on the history of Mars. Discovered in 1931 in ...

New Curtin University-led research has uncovered what may be the oldest direct evidence of ancient hot water activity on Mars ...

Mars was a frigid, dry, dead world, just like it is now. Something slammed into the unfortunate planet, sending debris into ...

Prof Bridges said: "You can identify a meteorite as classically it has a dark shiny fusion crust which will look really quite different from anything surrounding it. "It doesn't look like ...

"We can identify meteorites by studying what minerals are present in them and the relationships between these minerals inside the meteorite," says Tremblay. "Meteorites are often denser than Earth ...