The auction house said it was 70 percent bigger than the next largest piece of Mars found on Earth. Only around 400 Martian meteorites have ever been found on Earth. Cassandra Hat ...

An auction in New York City featured rare geological artifacts, including the largest piece of Mars sold for $5.3 million and ...

Wadhwa to join as 12th Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego in October 2025 Meenakshi Wadhwa will ...

The meteorite was discovered in Niger in November 2023 and is 70% larger than the next biggest piece of Mars recovered on ...

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 ...

The largest Mars rock ever found on Earth, NWA 16788, just sold for $5.3 million at a Sotheby's auction to an unnamed bidder.

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

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

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

The largest piece of Mars on Earth has sold for $5.3m. Meteorite NWA 16788, offered by Sotheby’s New York on Wednesday, July ...

A 54-pound meteorite from Mars, believed to be the largest piece of the planet currently on Earth, sold in a Sotheby’s auction for $5.3 million after a 15-minute bidding war to quickly become the most ...

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