Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so ...

Meteorites from a variety of sources have been discovered across Earth's surface for thousands of years, but Mars wasn't suggested as a possible source of this bombardment until the 1970s when ...

A Martian meteorite known as Amgala 001, found in Western Sahara in 2022. (Image credit: Wikimedia Commons/Steve Jurvetson) The team combined high-resolution simulations of impacts into a Mars ...

For years, scientists have puzzled over why Earth and Mars are missing certain key elements. Now, a fresh study suggests ...

Surprisingly, roughly 200 of these meteorites were launched from just five impact craters situated in the Tharsis and Elysium volcanic regions of Mars. “It is really amazing if you think about it.

But in a study published on August 16 in the journal Science Advances, a team from the University of Alberta calculated that around half of the 10 known Martian meteorite subgroups here on Earth ...

Mars has a clear structure in its mantel, and its crust includes distinct reservoirs, scientists have said. Those are the findings from meteorites that originated 1.3 billion years ago on the red ...

The Lafayette is a rare Martian meteorite. In 1931, an unusual stone stored in the geological collection of Purdue University was identified as a pristine example of a rare Martian meteorite - a ...

Mars has a distinct structure in its mantle and crust with discernible reservoirs, and this is known thanks to meteorites that scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and ...

A Martian meteorite that crashed to Earth 12 years ago contains a "huge diversity" of organic compounds, including one that has never been seen on Mars before, a new study has found.

The world's oldest Martian meteorite has been traced to the precise crater where it originated. Named Black Beauty, it formed almost 4.5 billion years ago and adds to evidence the Red Planet was ...

Black Beauty has an origin story. The meteorite NWA 7034, weighing about the same as a can of soda, was discovered in the Sahara Desert in 2011. But its true home was Mars. To fill out Black ...