Sotheby's is putting some rare items up for auction, including what it calls the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth.

The meteorite weighs over 25 kg and is 15 inches wide and is about 70 per cent bigger than any other piece of Mars ever found on Earth.

The meteorite is believed to have been blown off the surface of Mars by a massive asteroid strike before traveling to Earth, where it crashed into Africa’s Sahara Desert.

Scientists found a rock in Africa that originally came from the Moon after being knocked off by an asteroid impact and ...

A polarized-light microscopy image (in background) of a section from the Allende meteorite is one-thousandth of a millimeter thin. Chip Clark / NMNH Most likely it came from the asteroid belt ...

A 2.35-billion-year-old meteorite with a unique chemical signature, found in Africa in 2023, plugs a major gap in our ...

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

The Tellus Science Museum announced last week that it acquired a piece of the meteorite, which created a visible fireball ...