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One lucky bidder will soon fork over millions of dollars to take home NWA 16788, a 54-pound (24-kilogram) Martian meteorite.
A chunk of the Martian surface that made an unlikely voyage to Earth will be available to the highest bidder at Sotheby's ...
The largest Martian meteorite found on Earth to date is expected to fetch up to $4 million at auction in New York.
The odds of this getting from there to here are astronomically small, Sotheby’s Cassandra Hatton said, as record-breaking ...
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 ...
Earth's Martian material goes up for auction at a prestigious auction house this week. The estimate? $2-4 million in Earth ...
Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...
In the scorching heat of the Sahara desert in November 2023, a meteorite searcher found something that would be felt by the scientific world as well as collectors: a 54-pound Martian meteorite, NWA ...
A giant rock from Mars and a Jurassic-era dinosaur skeleton are set to go under the hammer at Sotheby’s this week.
Discovered in Niger in 2023, the rare chunk weighs 54 pounds and represents more than 6 percent of all Mars material on Earth ...
In all, there are only 400 known Mars rocks on Earth, comprising less than 1% of all known space rocks on the Blue Planet.
The largest-known piece of Mars to be found on Earth will be up for bid and could be sold for up to $4 million at auction.