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 ...

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

The Lafayette meteorite was discovered in a drawer at Purdue University in 1931, with no clear indication of how it got there. A new analysis of the rock reveals evidence of liquid water on Mars ...

Northern Argentina’s Campo del Cielo is where the world's largest mass of meteorites has been found. And it has also been ...

In the layers, researchers can see spherules — tiny, glass-like orbs that form when a meteorite impact melts silica-containing rock. They also see conglomerates, or rocks made of other chunks of ...

Researchers assessed the effects of this meteorite impact using evidence from ancient rocks in a region in northeastern South Africa called the Barberton Greenstone Belt. They found ample signs ...

This meteorite was rediscovered in a drawer at Purdue ... her team demonstrated that the age obtained for the timing of water-rock interaction on Mars was robust and that the chronometer used ...