NASA’s Perseverance rover has made a significant discovery on Mars: a meteorite, which could provide vital clues about the ...

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NEW YORK (Reuters) -A 54-pound (24.5-kg) Martian meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars found on Earth has sold for $5.3 million at Sotheby's, setting a new auction record for a meteorite.

The Perseverance rover has been exploring Jezero Crater for years, but it's never found an otherworldly object quite like ...

Add this to the list of "things that might be fun if you had a buttload of money": Someone forked over $5.3 million in a Sotheby's auction to own a piece of Mars. The Red Planet meteorite was ...

The Sotheby’s auction for meteorite NWA 16788, the largest chunk of Mars found on Earth, started at $2 million. While Sotheby’s expected it to go for between $2 and $4 million, a 15-minute bidding war ...

A bidder here on Earth shelled out a lot of green for a piece of the red planet on Wednesday when Sotheby's put a Martian meteorite up for auction. NWA 16788, the largest piece of Mars on Earth, was ...

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NWA 16788 is the largest Martian meteorite ever found. It weighs 54.388 pounds and is significantly larger than other Martian meteorites. This meteorite is a rare olivine-microgabbroic shergottite, a ...

Auction house Sotheby's will be hosting its annual Natural History sale in New York City on July 16, which features "...a carefully curated selection of dinosaur and non-dinosaur fossils, meteorites, ...

A few of the orange-colored carbonate globules found in ALH84001. This 1.6-ounce (46-gram) meteorite, a part of the Tissint meteorite that landed in Morocco in July 2011, fetched $43,750 at a public ...