One lucky bidder will soon fork over millions of dollars to take home NWA 16788, a 54-pound (24-kilogram) Martian meteorite.

Among items going up for auction at Sotheby's in New York is a 54-pound rock that the auction house calls the largest piece ...

The Martian rock is a rare collectible, as it is one of only 400 Martian meteorites recovered on Earth. The auction also ...

A huge and “incredibly rare” chunk of Mars that crash-landed in the Sahara will go on sale for nearly $2m at auction. Sotheby ...

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

A 54-pound (25-kilogramme) rock. Estimated auction price: $2 million to $4 million. Why so expensive? It’s the largest piece ...

Discovered in Niger in 2023, the rare chunk weighs 54 pounds and represents more than 6 percent of all Mars material on Earth ...

A 54-pound rock. Estimated auction price: $2 million to $4 million. Why so expensive? It’s the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth.

Why Sayfollah Musallet’s Death Exposes Urgent Questions for 2025, said Cassandra Hatton, Sotheby’s vice chairman of science and natural history, as NWA 16788, the largest Martian meteorite ever to be ...

A 54-pound Martian meteorite could fetch up to $4 million at Sotheby’s. Cheryl Preheim marvels at the out-of-this-world auction lineup.

A meteorite is a meteoroid that "survives" a trip through Earth's atmosphere and lands fully intact, according to NASA. The ...

If rocks could talk, this one (NWA 16788) would have a great tale to tell. It was ejected from its own planet by a massive ...