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

The red, brown and gray hunk is about 70% larger than the next largest piece of Mars found on Earth and represents nearly 7% ...

Analysis of Northwest Africa 16286 reveals it comes from underneath the Moon, where things were hot for longer than ...

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 ...

A giant rock from Mars and a Jurassic-era dinosaur skeleton are set to go under the hammer at Sotheby’s this week.

Earth's Martian material goes up for auction at a prestigious auction house this week. The estimate? $2-4 million in Earth ...

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 ...

The Martian rock is a rare collectible, as it is one of only 400 Martian meteorites recovered on Earth. The auction also ...

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

Scientists found a rock in Africa that originally came from the Moon after being knocked off by an asteroid impact and ...