Southern Arizona has numerous sites known for their pyroxene minerals, from Twin Buttes south of Tucson, to Ajo, to the Chiricahua, Santa Rita and Patagonia mountain ranges.

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

This type of Martian rock was formed by the slow cooling of magma on Mars. Sotheby’s says that it has a course-grained texture and the minerals pyroxene and olivine.

NWA 16788 is the largest martian meteorite ever found, weighing in at 54 pounds. Soon, it’ll be up for auction.

The biggest piece of Mars on Earth is going up for auction in New York The meteorite is believed to have been blown off the surface of Mars by a massive asteroid strike before traveling 140 ...

The more scientists study the Red Planet, the more they find unusual objects and patterns scattered across Mars' surface. As one of Earth's closest neighbors in space, Mars has long captivated ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would make them the first identified fragments of the solar system’s ...

For sale: A 54-pound (25-kilogram) rock. Estimated auction price: $2 million to $4 million. Why so expensive? It's the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth.

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Both meteorites contain olivine and pyroxene, minor albitic plagioclase and oldhamite. Such features are consistent with predictions for Mercury’s surface composition.

Society Neither gold nor platinum, this is the most expensive mineral on the planet and very few people know about it A troy ounce bar of gold is worth a hefty sum of money, but the same amount of ...

Representative field photographs and photomicrographs of representative samples (P02-gabbro and P53-diorite) from Yuka terrane: (A) P02 gabbro intrudes into the early Paleozoic Tanjianshan Group; (B) ...