An “incredibly rare” piece of Mars sold for $4.3m (€3.7m) at a New York auction after being found in the Sahara Desert. The 24.5kg meteorite is the largest piece of Mars on Earth. It was ejected from ...

Martian meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars found on Earth has sold for $5.3 million at Sotheby's, setting a ...

A spirited 15-minute bidding war between online and phone participants ultimately landed the ultra-rare specimen with an ...

NWA 16788 is largest ever found on Earth originating from Mars; dinosaur skeleton sells for more than $30 million ...

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

The largest piece of Mars ever discovered on Earth was sold for more than $5 million at an auction of rare geological and ...

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and ...

The auction of the largest piece of Mars on Earth exceeded Sotheby's expectations, fetching US$5.3 million.

Sotheby's - the auction house which sold the meteorite - says it weighs 54lb (24.5kg) and is nearly 15in (38.1cm) long. A meteorite is a piece of rock that has come from outside of Earth.

The whopping 25-kilogram Martian rock will be sold at a special natural history-themed auction at Sotheby's in New York this ...

The distance by road from Hyderabad to Lonar in Maharashtra is 450 km, it is the second-largest meteorite impact crater in ...

The flash in the Georgia sky in June, described by witnesses as a fireball, traveled hundreds of millions of miles through ...