A chunk of rock that blasted off Mars and crash-landed on Earth is turning out to be one of the richest archives of ancient Martian water ever found. New scans of the famous “Black Beauty” meteorite ...

Famous Martian Meteorite Found Packed With Traces of 'Ancient Water' ...

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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 ...

Add this to the list of "things that might be fun if you had a buttload of money": Someone forked over $5.3 million in a Sotheby's auction to own a piece of Mars. The Red Planet meteorite was ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -A 54-pound (24.5-kg) Martian meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars found on Earth has sold for $5.3 million at Sotheby's, setting a new auction record for a meteorite.

Auction house Sotheby's will be hosting its annual Natural History sale in New York City on July 16, which features "...a carefully curated selection of dinosaur and non-dinosaur fossils, meteorites, ...

A meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars on Earth is expected to fetch up to $4 million. It’s up for auction at Sotheby’s. Known as NWA 16788, the meteorite weighs 54 pounds (24.5 kilograms ...

If rocks could talk, this one (NWA 16788) would have a great tale to tell. It was ejected from its own planet by a massive asteroid collision, wandered around in space for ages, then eventually found ...

The study of Martian geology and meteorites has transformed our understanding of the Red Planet’s evolution and its geodynamic processes. Recent investigations have revealed a complex interior ...

Scientists studying a rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover have uncovered something tantalizing: the largest ...