When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. NWA 16788 was recovered from the Sahara Desert in November 2023. It is 70% larger than any other ...

Who would pay several million dollars for a hunk of red, brown and gray rock? Well, when that rock is the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth, there may be plenty of candidates. Sotheby’s will ...

When Kate Middleton handled a small piece of rock at London’s Natural History Museum she became one of the few people on ...

The largest known piece of Mars on planet Earth sold today for $5.3m in an auction at Sotheby's in New York City. The meteorite, designated NWA 16788, weighs 54 pounds (24.5 kilograms) and is the ...

The largest Martian rock ever to arrive on Earth, NWA 16788, just sold for $5.3 million (including fees and other costs) at a Sotheby's auction to an unnamed bidder. This Mars rock, or more aptly ...

The Martian meteorite is 54 pounds, or about the weight of a standard bag of cement. It's 70% larger than the next largest piece of Mars on Earth. NWA 16788 was discovered Nov. 16, 2023, by a ...

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects in New York on Wednesday. But a rare young dinosaur skeleton ...

DAKAR, Senegal — It’s the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth — a 54-pound (25-kilogram) meteorite that fetched more than $5 million at a New York auction last month, setting a world record. But ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. BILLINGS — In 1990 a piece of the heavens fell in Roundup. But you’ll have to go to New York City ...

This monumental iron meteorite originates from the Gibeon fall, first documented in Namibia in the 19th century. Weighing an extraordinary 240 kilograms, this specimen is the largest pure-iron ...