This meteorite, affectionately dubbed NWA 16788, isn’t just any space rock, though. At a stunning $5.3 million, not only did ...

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

Auction house Sotheby's just auctioned off the largest known Mars meteorite, realizing a record price that shattered ...

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth has sold for just over $5 million at a Sotheby's auction in New York.

This was the first time such an historical and rare piece was auctioned off. But as popular as the Mars meterorite was, a ...

The largest piece of Mars ever discovered on Earth was sold for more than $5 million at an auction of rare geological and ...

The largest Mars meteorite ever found on Earth was sold at a Sotheby's auction in New York on Wednesday for $5.3 million.

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 bidder at a Sotheby’s New York auction Wednesday.

A chunk of the Martian surface that at some point crashed into Earth sold Wednesday, July 16 to an anonymous bidder for a record $5.3 million.

A massive 240-kilogram iron meteorite, believed to be 4.6 billion years old, is set to be auctioned later this summer in a ...

In Photos: Meteorite Crashes in Russia Finally, in estimating price, there's the issue of whether anybody saw the meteorite fall. A so-called "witnessed fall" makes a meteorite more valuable to ...