This meteorite, affectionately dubbed NWA 16788, isn’t just any space rock, though. At a stunning $5.3 million, not only did ...

The largest Mars meteorite ever found on Earth was sold at a Sotheby's auction in New York on Wednesday for $5.3 million.

They’re not a perfect match, but it’s way too hot on the first planet for us to hop over and confirm for ourselves.

In Photos: Meteorite Crashes in Russia Finally, in estimating price, there's the issue of whether anybody saw the meteorite fall. A so-called "witnessed fall" makes a meteorite more valuable to ...

A meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars on Earth has sold for $5.3 million, with taxes and fees, to an anonymous ...

Most meteorites, however, originate from the solar system's main asteroid belt —a vast region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter where more than a million asteroids circle the sun.

In 2018, an independent researcher bought a piece of space rock from a vendor in Morocco. It could change what we know of the ...

Both meteorites contain only trace amounts of plagioclase, in contrast to Mercury’s surface, which is . Furthermore, our study suggests that the age of the samples is about 4,528 million years old.

Bryson, a co-author on the study published earlier this month in Icarus, and his colleagues investigated an enstatite chondrite meteorite from Alaska known as LAR 12252. While a previous study of ...