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A 54-pound meteorite from Mars is expected to fetch up to $4 million when it goes up for auction later this month at ...
A 54-pound chunk of Mars-believed to be the largest Martian meteorite ever discovered on Earth-is hitting the auction block ...
The largest-known piece of Mars to be found on Earth will be up for bid and could be sold for up to $4 million at auction.
Discovered in Niger in 2023, the rare chunk weighs 54 pounds and represents more than 6 percent of all Mars material on Earth ...
Scientists found a rock in Africa that originally came from the Moon after being knocked off by an asteroid impact and ...
The best time to see the June Bootids in the U.S. is in the hours following sunset on the night of June 27, when the radiant ...
They’re not a perfect match, but it’s way too hot on the first planet for us to hop over and confirm for ourselves.
Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the ...
The minerals came from a 70-gram (nearly 2.5-ounce) slice of the meteorite, which was discovered in Somalia in 2020 and is the ninth-largest meteorite ever found, according to a news release from ...
An apparent fragment from a meteor that lit up Midwestern skies this week has been recovered in southwestern Wisconsin, scientists said Friday. The fragment weighs 7.5 grams, or 0.3 pounds, and is ...
So you think you've found a meteorite. Rachel Micander, a graduate student in the Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering and a geologist for the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, shares ...