A 54-pound Martian rock, known as NWA 16788, fetched a record $5.3 million at Sotheby’s, becoming the most expensive ...

A 54-pound meteorite from Mars sold for more than $5 million when it went up for auction on Wednesday at Sotheby's.

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

Yesterday, auction house Sotheby’s just auctioned off the largest known Martian meteorite. The stone NWA 16788 sold for $5.3 million, more than expected and the highest price ever for a meteorite. The ...

The dinosaur skeleton is one of only four known Ceratosaurus nasicornis skeletons and the only juvenile skeleton of the ...

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 ...

Add this to the list of "things that might be fun if you had a buttload of money": Someone forked over $5.3 million in a ...

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

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

A meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars on Earth has sold for a hammer price of $4.3 million to an anonymous ...

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 ...

The largest piece of Mars on Earth has sold for $5.3m. Meteorite NWA 16788, offered by Sotheby’s New York on Wednesday, July ...