The odds of this getting from there to here are astronomically small, Sotheby’s Cassandra Hatton said, as record-breaking ...

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

A chunk of the Martian surface that made an unlikely voyage to Earth will be available to the highest bidder at Sotheby's ...

A chunk of the Martian surface that at some point crashed into Earth sold Wednesday, July 16 to an anonymous bidder for a record $5.3 million.

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction in New York on Wednesday.

Sotheby's - the auction house which sold the meteorite - says it weighs 54lb (24.5kg) and is nearly 15in (38.1cm) long. A meteorite is a piece of rock that has come from outside of Earth.

"Its occurrence is like finding a tropical seed in Arctic ice – indicating either an unexpected local environment or ...

Last January, researchers found that two meteorites held other ingredients for life: amino acids, hydrocarbons, other organic matter, and traces of liquid water that could date to the earliest ...

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