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.

Of the more than 74,000 known meteorites – rocks that fall to Earth from asteroids or planets colliding together – only 385 or so stones came from the planet Mars.

These studies show that Mars is bombarded by meteorites far more often than previously thought — about 2.5 times more ...

Are subterranean lifeforms viable on Mars? A new interpretation of Martian seismic data by scientists Ikuo Katayama of ...

This meteorite from Mars was discovered in the Allan Hills of Antarctica in 1984. | Credit: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images It was just a hypothesis, but it would explain ...

Ioannis Baziotis is one of the leading Greek scientists in the field of planetary science and cosmochemistry. As Associate ...

This event sparked the first serious investigation into the origins of meteorites. Find out more about the remarkable stories in the Treasures gallery. It's an age-old question: is there life on Mars?

Nakhlites are a unique suite of ~20 Martian meteorites. They are basaltic pyroxenites with mineralogies dominated by cumulative pyroxene and olivine. Traditionally considered to represent a shallow ...

We want to go to Mars — problem is, there isn't a lot of oxygen, and transporting it from Earth is complex and expensive. According to a new study though, an AI system can synthesize oxygen from ...

The Antarctic Meteorite Collection at the National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR) in Japan has been recognized as a ...