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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An international collaboration of scientists including two from Purdue University’s College of Science have recently determined the age of the minerals in the Lafayette Meteorite that formed ...

Scientists studying the Lafayette Meteorite, believed to have originated from Mars, have confirmed that it contains minerals ...

The Richard F. West Meteorite Collection was unveiled on Friday at JMU and includes everything from primitive chondrites to ...