One lucky bidder will soon fork over millions of dollars to take home NWA 16788, a 54-pound (24-kilogram) Martian meteorite. This space rock, discovered in the Sahara Desert in 2023, is the largest ...

The largest meteorite ever found on Earth is the Goba meteorite, which weighs an astonishing 66 tons and measures about 3 meters in diameter. Discovered near the town of Grootfontein in Namibia in ...

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

On Wednesday (July 16), the largest Mars meteorite on Earth was auctioned off at Sotheby's in New York City for $4.3 million.

A martian meteorite — the largest single piece of rock from Mars known to be on Earth — just sold at auction for $5.3 million ...

NWA 16788 was recovered from the Sahara Desert in November 2023. It is 70% larger than any other known Martian meteorite. | Credit: Sotheby's The largest known Martian meteorite has just been sold at ...

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