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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A massive meteorite that struck Earth early on in its history wreaked havoc on the planet, but the impact may have allowed ...

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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 ...