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 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 and exceptionally large Martian meteorite, NWA 16788, weighing 24.5 kilograms and measuring nearly 38.1 centimeters in ...

"While robotic missions to Mars continue to shed light on the planet's history, the only samples from Mars available for study on Earth are Martian meteorites," Lauren White, a systems engineer at ...

The meteorite was discovered in Niger in November 2023 and is 70% larger than the next biggest piece of Mars recovered on Earth.

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 ...

Sotheby's is putting some rare items up for auction, including what it calls the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth. The natural history-themed sale on Wednesday features a 54-pound hunk ...

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 ...

A rare 54-pound Martian meteorite, the largest piece of Mars ever discovered on Earth, will be auctioned at Sotheby’s in New ...

Sotheby's - the auction house which sold the meteorite - says it weighs 54lb (24.5kg) and is nearly 15in (38.1cm) long. A meteorite is a piece of rock that has come from outside of Earth.