"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 ...

One of those meteorites eventually succumbed to Earth’s gravitational pull after a lengthy journey through space, sending it ...

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 ...

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

A rock carved out of Mars 11 million years ago contains traces of liquid water. This has measurably changed its composition.

El Médano 128 meteorite, an ordinary chondrite (group L), found in the Atacama desert in 2011 by a team of researchers from the Centre de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de l ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Meteorites - rocks that fall to Earth from space - have pelted our planet from its birth about 4.5 billion years ago to today, often causing scant damage but ...

"We dated these minerals in the Martian meteorite Lafayette and found that they formed 742 million years ago. We do not think there was abundant liquid water on the surface of Mars at this time.

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