The findings help reveal the story of an 800-gram (1.8 pound) meteorite that has remained a mystery for nearly 100 years, having been found in a desk drawer at Purdue University in Indiana ...

Evidence of hot water that’s essential to life points to Mars’ habitable past - Researchers used the famous ‘Black Beauty’ ...

Using isotopic dating, a team at Purdue University has determined that the “Lafayette Meteorite” likely interacted ... the penny-sized bit of rock somehow found its way into a Purdue ...

The Lafayette meteorite is a glassy chunk of space rock about 2 inches (5 centimeters) long. It was found at Purdue University nearly a century ago, and no one knew who discovered it or where it ...

An iron meteorite found in an Ocean Falls backyard in the 1960s will be up for bids in Lunds Auctioneers and Appraisers’ Top Notch auction on Dec. 10. The chunk is “older than anything you ...

WJ1 was only the sixth asteroid to be detected prior to striking Earth, and the smallest space rock ever seen.

Here’s a gift idea for the holiday season — if you don’t mind something a little old, as in 4.5 billion years old. An iron meteorite found in an Ocean Falls backyard in the 1960s will be up for bids ...

A firearm discovered in Arizona is what researchers believe to be the "oldest" ever found in the continental United States. Excavations along the Santa Cruz River in Southern Arizona brought to ...