Credit: NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems Black Beauty is a Martian meteorite. Credit: NASA In 2011, a striking black rock about the size of an apple was discovered in the Sahara desert.

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 ...

The Mars meteorite 'Black Beauty' suggests there used to be hot water on the Red Planet. Scientists have found what seems to be the oldest direct evidence of hot water flowing on Mars during its ...

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 ...

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.

(Left) an image of Mars as the dry and arid planet we know today (right) the Mars meteorite Black Beauty which indicates the planet's watery past. | Credit: NASA/Curtin University Scientists have ...

A 4.45-billion-year-old grain of the mineral zircon in a Martian meteorite found in the Sahara Desert in 2011 indicates Mars may have been home to boiling hot hydrothermal systems similar to Earth ...

Inside an ancient meteorite that collided with Earth, scientists have uncovered evidence of what could be the oldest hot water activity on Mars. Similar hydrothermal vents were a key component in ...