A spirited 15-minute bidding war between online and phone participants ultimately landed the ultra-rare specimen with an ...

An “incredibly rare” piece of Mars sold for $4.3m (€3.7m) at a New York auction after being found in the Sahara Desert. The 24.5kg meteorite is the largest piece of Mars on Earth. It was ejected from ...

Wadhwa to join as 12th Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego in October 2025 Meenakshi Wadhwa will ...

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 ...

Martian meteorite, found in the Sahara Desert in 2023, fetched a record price of $5.3 million at Sotheby's in New York on Wednesday. The piece is the largest Martian rock ever found on Earth and ...

The largest Mars rock ever found on Earth, NWA 16788, just sold for $5.3 million at a Sotheby's auction to an unnamed bidder.

Auction house Sotheby's just auctioned off the largest known Mars meteorite, realizing a record price that shattered expectations.

Martian meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars found on Earth has sold for $5.3 million at Sotheby's, setting a ...

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and ...

The largest piece of Mars on Earth has sold for $5.3m. Meteorite NWA 16788, offered by Sotheby’s New York on Wednesday, July ...

The meteorite was discovered in Niger in November 2023 and is 70% larger than the next biggest piece of Mars recovered on ...

A 54-pound meteorite from Mars, believed to be the largest piece of the planet currently on Earth, sold in a Sotheby’s auction for $5.3 million after a 15-minute bidding war to quickly become the most ...