The largest Martian meteorite ever sold has set a new auction record, fetching $5.3 million in the United States, according ...

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

There’s really no substitute for ‘ground truth,’ and the Martian meteorites represent the only known samples from that planet ...

The odds of this getting from there to here are astronomically small, Sotheby’s Cassandra Hatton said, as record-breaking ...

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.

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

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

Discovered in Niger in 2023, the rare chunk weighs 54 pounds and represents more than 6 percent of all Mars material on Earth ...

A 54-pound Martian rock, known as NWA 16788, fetched a record $5.3 million at Sotheby’s, becoming the most expensive ...

Very few meteorites from this planet ever reach Earth and none have been scientifically proven. A study investigated two ...

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