The odds of this getting from there to here are astronomically small,” Sotheby’s vice chairman of science and natural history ...

Out of the 122 lots, the main event is NWA 16788, a Martian meteorite that is the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth.

The “Largest Piece of Mars on Earth” just sold at auction for about $5.3 million— $5,296,000, to be exact. Popular Science ...

A chunk of the Martian surface that made an unlikely voyage to Earth will be available to the highest bidder at Sotheby's ...

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction in New York on Wednesday.

A chunk of the Martian surface that at some point crashed into Earth sold Wednesday, July 16 to an anonymous bidder for a record $5.3 million.

WASHINGTON — A mineral called siderite found abundantly in rock drilled by a NASA rover on the surface of Mars is providing fresh evidence of the planet's warmer and wetter ancient past when it ...

These minerals exist widely on Mars, making up 4% to 8% of Martian soil. They're also embedded in the planet's layered sediments and cemented within sandstones and siltstones.

"Models predict that carbonate minerals should be widespread, but, to date, rover-based investigations and satellite-based orbital surveys of the Martian surface have found little evidence of ...

“Sulphate minerals exist with different amounts of water in most regions on Mars and allow us to understand how water moved around the planet, which is key to understanding its past habitability ...