"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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Found in a drawer Thanks to research, quite a bit is known about the Lafayette Meteorite's origin story. It was ejected from the surface of Mars about 11 million years ago by an impact event. "We ...