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

Researchers from Purdue University have confirmed the so-called Lafayette Meteorite encountered Water before it left Mars ...

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

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 ...

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

Almost a century ago, a meteorite turned up in a drawer at Purdue University. By the university’s own account, how it got ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of these chunks of Mars eventually crashed into the Earth somewhere near Purdue University and is one of the few meteorites that can be traced directly to Mars. This meteorite was rediscovered ...