One lucky bidder will soon fork over millions of dollars to take home NWA 16788, a 54-pound (24-kilogram) Martian meteorite.

A massive chunk of Mars, known as NWA 16788, is expected to fetch up to $4 million when it goes under the hammer at Sotheby’s ...

At 8:30 p.m. on the night of August 22, 1888, a "fireball" struck a hill near what's now Sulaymaniyah, Iraq. The blast damaged farmland, paralyzed one man, and left another one dead.

A chunk of the Martian surface that made an unlikely voyage to Earth will be available to the highest bidder at Sotheby's ...

NWA 16788 was discovered in Niger & is assumed to have travelled 140 million miles to reach Earth. Weighing 24.67 kg, the ...

Among items going up for auction at Sotheby's in New York is a 54-pound rock that the auction house calls the largest piece ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...

The largest Martian meteorite found on Earth to date is expected to fetch up to $4 million at auction in New York.

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Discovered in Niger in 2023, the rare chunk weighs 54 pounds and represents more than 6 percent of all Mars material on Earth ...

A 2.35-billion-year-old meteorite with a unique chemical signature, found in Africa in 2023, plugs a major gap in our ...

Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the ...