There’s really no substitute for ‘ground truth,’ and the Martian meteorites represent the only known samples from that planet ...

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

A meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars on Earth has sold for $5.3 million, with taxes and fees, to an anonymous ...

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

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 ...

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

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

A 54-pound Martian meteorite, the largest ever found on Earth, sold for $5.3 million at Sotheby's. The meteorite, discovered ...

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

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

This meteorite, affectionately dubbed NWA 16788, isn’t just any space rock, though. At a stunning $5.3 million, not only did it fetch the highest price of any meteorite ever, it’s also the largest, ...