This also means that the planet may have been habitable at some point in its history and could have supported microbial life.

Scientists have found evidence of hot water on Mars dating back 4.45 billion years, the earliest yet. A zircon grain in the ...

As the days grow short, that winter journey so long ago came to mind as I pondered our relationship to landscapes, both ...

Everybody knows where some meteorites are but not all so theories started being developed around it. ...

Scientists analyzing the 'Black Beauty' meteorite have discovered a zircon grain that hints at hydrothermal systems on early ...

A chunk of rock collected from the asteroid Ryugu contains bacteria—but, unfortunately, it's not evidence of alien life.

This single tiny crystal may have told us more about the red planet’s first few hundred million years than every other source ...

A rock that formed around 4.5 billion years ago on Mars before being blasted into space by a meteor strike and making its way ...

The team analyzed meteorites from a large space rock designated as NWA7034 or “Black Beauty.” While all Martian meteorites have clues about the planet’s geologic history, most of them are igneous ...

Scientists have found what seems to be the oldest direct evidence of hot water flowing on Mars during its ancient past. The ...

According to a new analysis of the Lafayette Meteorite, minerals within it formed in the presence of water 742 million years ...

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