But about 200 belong to a rarefied group of Martian meteorites. These rocks were dislodged from Mars’s surface by asteroid impacts and imbued with sufficient kinetic energy to escape the planet ...

A piece of the Lafayette meteorite at Purdue University. (Purdue Brand Studio) One of the materials in question is a type of rock called iddingsite, which forms from volcanic basalt in the presence of ...

Researchers have uncovered what may be the oldest direct evidence of hot water activity on Mars, suggesting the red planet ...

This latest piece of information comes from a 4.45 billion-year-old zircon grain within the Martian meteorite NWA7034 that was discovered in the Sahara Desert in 2011. The NWA7034, a ...

That’s because the surface has been severely denuded, and orbiters and rovers can’t yet identify which rocks are from the period. Ancient meteorites that have made their way to Earth are a ...

Australian and European planetary scientists have found grains of minerals in the famous Martian meteorite "Black Beauty" that originated on Mars about 4.45 billion years ago, as a result of the ...

The team analyzed meteorites from a large space rock designated as NWA7034 or “Black Beauty.” While all Martian meteorites have clues about the planet’s geologic history, most of them are ...

A zircon crystal blasted off the face of Mars before landing on Earth as part of one of the most unusual meteorites ever found ... it fused into rock perhaps 1.5 billion years ago, and the ...

This week, meet a baby saber-toothed cat mummy, see the first image of a star beyond our galaxy, explore an atlas of the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On Nov. 24, 1947, the U.S. Navy launched the first Aerobee rocket. Aerobee was a suborbital ...