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

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

The unlikely journey that brought the Lafayette Meteorite to Purdue University’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and ...

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 lightly raced Moby Dick will chase the $1 million purse on offer in Saturday’s Meteorite at Cranbourne after he was secured by slot-holder Ladbrokes Racing Club. The Mick Price and Michael Kent ...

Ladbrokes Racing Club has enlisted emerging sprinter Moby Dick for the inaugural $1 million The Meteorite on Saturday at ...

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

Analysis of a space rock that landed on a frozen Michigan lake revealed a rich array of extraterrestrial organic compounds. Learn how the meteorite might have been incorporated into life on Earth.

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