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

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

A sliver of Martian rock that once lay hidden in a university drawer has helped researchers better understand the Red ...

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

A piece of the Lafayette Meteorite, as it’s known, returned to Purdue 90 years after first being discovered there in 1929.

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

An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of ...

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

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

Several bits of Mars have rained down on Earth as meteorites, one of which is the subject of a new study. Researchers from Purdue University have confirmed the so-called Lafayette Meteorite ...

A rock carved out of Mars 11 million years ago contains traces of liquid water. This has measurably changed its composition.

A meteorite from Mars has a history of interacting with water, probably as a result of volcanic activity melting ice on the Red Planet over 700 million years ago. The findings help reveal the ...