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

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

A Martian meteorite that landed on Earth more than a century ago has helped scientists learn about the history of water on the Red Planet.

Even smaller is the number of nakhlites, one of the three categories of Martian meteorites, of which there are only 32 recognized samples, according to The Meteoritical Society. The Lafayette ...

Dating the alteration minerals in Lafayette and, more generally, in this class of meteorites from Mars called nakhlites, has been a long-term objective in planetary science because scientists know ...

Dating the alteration minerals in Lafayette and, more generally, in this class of meteorites from Mars called nakhlites, has ...