The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth just hammered down for an astronomical sum. The 54-pound rock, known as NWA 16788, sold for a record $5.3 million at Sotheby’s New York on Wednesday, ...

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

Some pricey chunks of space rock are among the objects for sale at a Dallas auction house this weekend. The Garza Stone, a 5-pound piece of a meteorite that famously crashed through the roof of a ...

A piece of Mars delivered from space is soon going to the auction circuit, and is supposedly going to demand a hefty price. The piece, NWA 16788, uncovered on December 16, 2023, from the remote Agadez ...

A view of the outside of the OSIRIS-REx sample collector. Sample material from asteroid Bennu can be seen on the middle right. I’m a professor of astronomy. I use moon and Mars rocks in my teaching ...

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 ...

A rock from Mars that traveled tens if not hundreds of millions of miles before improbably landing on our planet's surface has found its final resting place: the private collection of some secretive ...

Roughly half a pound of material collected from the 85 million-ton asteroid (77.6 billion kg) will help scientists learn about the formation of the solar system, including whether asteroids like Bennu ...

A rock from Mars that traveled tens if not hundreds of millions of miles before improbably landing on our planet’s surface has found its final resting place: the private collection of some secretive ...

A little bit of asteroid works out to $132 million per ounce — pricy! — but not quite the most expensive material used in science. I’m a professor of astronomy. I use Moon and Mars rocks in my ...

I use moon and Mars rocks in my teaching and have a modest collection of meteorites. I marvel at the fact that I can hold in my hand something that is billions of years old from billions of miles away ...