Niger has opened an investigation into whether a rare Mars rock was smuggled out of the country before it sold for £3.2m at a ...

"Brazen! It is brazen!" Prof Paul Sereno says down the phone line from Chicago. He makes no effort to disguise his anger that ...

Niger has announced that it plans to investigate the sale of the largest martian meteorite on Earth after the fragment was ...

The 54-pound (25-kilogram) rock named NWA 16788 was discovered in the Sahara Desert in Niger by a meteorite hunter in November 2023, after having been blown off the surface of Mars by a massive ...

It was discovered in a remote region of Niger in November 2023 and is 70% larger than the next biggest piece of Mars that has been recovered, the auction house said. Meteorites are whatever bits of ...

The largest piece of Mars on Earth became the most valuable meteorite ever sold at auction at Sotheby’s annual ”Geek Week,” and a full Ceratosaurus skeleton fetched $30 million. Next up for bidding: ...

A rare rock from Mars known as Meteorite NWA 16788 will be up for auction at Sotheby's on July 16. The meteorite may sell for ...

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

Martian Meteorite NWA 16788, excavated from Niger’s remote Agadez Region in 2023, is available to all through an online auction with bids already reaching $1.6 million nearly a week in advance.

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

At first glance, it might seem like an ordinary hunk of stone, but this particular rock just got snapped up for a mere AU$8.2 million.

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just more than $5 million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects Wednesday in New York. But a rare young dinosaur ...