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.

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

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

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.

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 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 ...