A bidder here on Earth shelled out a lot of green for a piece of the red planet on Wednesday when Sotheby's put a Martian meteorite up for auction. NWA 16788, the largest piece of Mars on Earth, was ...

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A chunk of the Martian surface that made an unlikely interplanetary voyage to Earth will soon be available to the highest bidder. And for a few million dollars, it could be yours. Sotheby's, a British ...

NASA’s report of potential signs of ancient life on Mars has reignited a long-running scientific debate about how common life ...

Despite the pandemic, NASA is on track to launch its Mars rover, Perseverance, this July from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Its central mission will be to search for evidence of previous life on Mars. An ...

Meteorite NWA 16788 is one of the rarest types of space rock on Earth Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places like ...

The Sotheby’s auction for meteorite NWA 16788, the largest chunk of Mars found on Earth, started at $2 million. While Sotheby’s expected it to go for between $2 and $4 million, a 15-minute bidding war ...

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 ...

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, ...

When a Mars-sized meteorite slammed into Earth billions of years ago, the impact completely reset any and all chemical ...