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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

During early investigations of the Lafayette Meteorite, scientists discovered that it had interacted with liquid water while on Mars. Scientists have long wondered when that interaction with ...

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

When did liquid water exist on Mars and what can it tell us about when, or if, life ever existed on the Red Planet? This is ...