An international team of scientists has identified a completely new type of rock from the red planet and, for the first time, ...

Discover how a Sahara Desert meteorite reveals secrets of a vanished Mars-sized planet, reshaping our understanding of early ...

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Researchers are drilling 500 metres into Spain's only internationally recognised meteorite crater, hoping to learn more about ...

A martian meteorite — the largest single piece of rock from Mars known to be on Earth — just sold at auction for $5.3 million. The meteorite is believed to have been ejected from Mars by an asteroid ...

One lucky bidder will soon fork over millions of dollars to take home NWA 16788, a 54-pound (24-kilogram) Martian meteorite. This space rock, discovered in the Sahara Desert in 2023, is the largest ...

The recent auction of a Martian meteorite—for a record-grabbing $5.3 million at Sotheby's New York—has sparked questions over its provenance and renewed debate over who gets to claim rocks fallen from ...

Scientists studying a rare, ancient angrite meteorite found in the Sahara Desert have uncovered evidence of a lost ...

The largest Martian rock ever to arrive on Earth, NWA 16788, just sold for $5.3 million (including fees and other costs) at a Sotheby's auction to an unnamed bidder. This Mars rock, or more aptly ...

Believe it or not, debris from Mars has frequently made its way to Earth after powerful impacts hit the Red Planet's surface and launch it into space. There have been at least 10 of these ...