The essential ingredient for life, water, appeared on both planets around 4.4 billion years ago, new research indicates.

The unlikely journey that brought the Lafayette Meteorite to Purdue University’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and ...

The study identified when water interacted with the meteorite and established that the dating was unaffected by events after ...

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

"The emerging picture is that early Mars and Earth had something in common – both were wet. It is known from analysis of the ...

A rock that formed around 4.5 billion years ago on Mars before being blasted into space by a meteor strike and making its way ...

The Lafayette meteorite was discovered in a drawer at Purdue University in 1931, with no clear indication of how it got there ...

Scientists have found what seems to be the oldest direct evidence of hot water flowing on Mars during its ancient past. The ...

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

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

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

Despite the team's success in dating the water-rock interaction, the researchers don't think Mars was teeming with water at ...