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, ...
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 ...
BETHEL, Maine -- Meteorite hunters, get ready to head into the woods. A museum in Maine is offering $25,000 for the remains of a space rock that streaked across the sky last week before landing near ...
ONE small check to a businessman, one giant leap for a meteorite: after journeys of millions of kilometers, rocks formed from the primordial soup of the solar system have landed on the walls of a ...
Katy has a BA in Humanities and Philosophy, with over 20 years of experience in online and print publishing. She was named the Association of British Science Writers' Editor of the Year in 2023. An ...
Today's meteror can be tomorrow's (star) dust. Feb. 19, 2013 -- Meteorite hunters are converging on Chelyabinsk, Russia, seeking pieces of a space rock that exploded above that city last week, ...
© 2025 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. All Rights Reserved. A Henry County man won a lottery of sorts when a space rock — seen for hundreds of miles around as a ...
The largest piece of Mars ever discovered on Earth was sold for more than $5 million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects in New York. Named NWA 16788, the 54-pound (25-kilogram ...
Morocco now produces more meteorite discoveries than anywhere on Earth, with some Martian and lunar fragments selling for millions of dollars. The government legalized meteorite exports in 2020, ...
“It literally stood out,” NASA scientists said, describing the moment that cameras on Perseverance focused on a single, sculpted boulder on the rim of Jezero Crater. In almost four years of traversing ...
Ben Rider-Stokes receives funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1 ...
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