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 ...

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 ...

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

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

A team of scientists has found evidence of liquid water on Mars from 742 million years ago in a Martian meteorite known as ...

Mars was hit by an asteroid 11 million years ago because of which pieces of the Red Planet had been disbursed into space.  A ...

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

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