A spirited 15-minute bidding war between online and phone participants ultimately landed the ultra-rare specimen with an ...

Cassandra Hatton, Sotheby's Vice President of Science and Natural History, emphasized the rarity of the find. "This is the largest piece of Mars we have ever found by a long shot," she said, according ...

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $4 million plus fees at an auction of rare geological ...

Martian meteorite, found in the Sahara Desert in 2023, fetched a record price of $5.3 million at Sotheby's in New York on Wednesday. The piece is the largest Martian rock ever found on Earth and ...

The largest Mars rock ever found on Earth, NWA 16788, just sold for $5.3 million at a Sotheby's auction to an unnamed bidder.

NWA 16788, the largest piece of Mars on Earth, fetched $5.3 million at auction. Franklin Institute chief astronomer and ...

Martian meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars found on Earth has sold for $5.3 million at Sotheby's, setting a ...

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and ...

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

A 54-pound meteorite from Mars, believed to be the largest piece of the planet currently on Earth, sold in a Sotheby’s auction for $5.3 million after a 15-minute bidding war to quickly become the most ...

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.