"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 ...

Despite the team's success in dating the water-rock interaction, the researchers don't think Mars was teeming with water at ...

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 ...

The study identified when water interacted with the meteorite and established that the dating was unaffected by events after ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...