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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.
When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels ...
Estimated auction price: $2 million to $4 million. According to the auction house, the meteorite is believed to have been ...
Sotheby's in New York will be auctioning what's known as NWA 16788 on Wednesday as part of a natural history-themed sale that ...
A large asteroid will pass close to Earth in July 2025. NASA and ISRO are closely monitoring its trajectory. The asteroid, ...
"The impact could pose some danger to equipment or astronauts on the moon, and certainly to satellites and other Earth-orbiting platforms, which are above our atmosphere." ...
NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2025 MG1 is approaching. The space rock, roughly 130 feet wide, will pass Earth on July 12.
Scientists found a rock in Africa that originally came from the Moon after being knocked off by an asteroid impact and ...
Discovered in Niger in 2023, the rare chunk weighs 54 pounds and represents more than 6 percent of all Mars material on Earth ...
The largest fragment of Mars ever discovered on Earth, a 54-pound meteorite named NWA 16788, is set for auction at Sotheby's in New York.
In all, there are only 400 known Mars rocks on Earth, comprising less than 1% of all known space rocks on the Blue Planet.
NASA reports that the space rock, measuring around 1,200 feet across, is expected to make its closest approach on Thursday, ...