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Sotheby's is putting some rare items up for auction, including what it calls the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth ...
A 2.35-billion-year-old meteorite with a unique chemical signature, found in Africa in 2023, plugs a major gap in our ...
A minuscule meteorite seems to be rewriting the history of our solar system. The 50-gram Northwest Africa 12264 has brought a new understanding of when and how rocky worlds came together. Inner ...
The largest-known piece of Mars to be found on Earth will be up for bid and could be sold for up to $4 million at auction.
A 54-pound chunk of Mars-believed to be the largest Martian meteorite ever discovered on Earth-is hitting the auction block ...
Discovered in Niger in 2023, the rare chunk weighs 54 pounds and represents more than 6 percent of all Mars material on Earth ...
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The largest fragment of Mars ever discovered on Earth, a 54-pound meteorite named NWA 16788, is set for auction at Sotheby's in New York.
When meteor becomes meteorites worth hundreds of dollars strewn over the earth — like what happened in Henry County in June — the law of ownership isn’t always simple.
The meteorite's long bright trail looked like a fireball streaking across the sky on its way to the Eastern Townships ...
Scientists found a rock in Africa that originally came from the Moon after being knocked off by an asteroid impact and ...
Sotheby’s has unveiled the largest Martian meteorite ever recovered on Earth, a 54-pound (24.4-kg) specimen known as NWA ...
Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the ...