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

The largest meteorite ever found on Earth is the Goba meteorite, which weighs an astonishing 66 tons and measures about 3 ...

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

Christian Varady was watching the sky outside his Cantonment home when he saw a color-changing fireball fall into the ...

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

The largest known piece of Mars on Earth has now been sold for over $5 million. The auction of the Martian meteorite took ...

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

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

The dinosaur skeleton, on the other hand, sparked a war among six bidders over six minutes. With a pre-auction estimate of $4 ...

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

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

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.