Sotheby’s sold the rock at auction last year for $5.3 million. The government has now seized the 54-pound hunk of space debris — the largest meteorite from Mars ever auctioned.

A Martian rock was flung from our neighboring planet and made its way to Earth, landing in the Sahara desert. Now, scientists have dated the meteorite and found that it unlocks a 1.8 billion-year-old ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earth garnet has a glowing red hue. Mars garnet is a little... different. (Minakryn Ruslan/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Cracking open ...

The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) discovered a rock on Mars that could hold clues to whether life ...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- A team of scientists from various institutions including the Universities Space Research Association have determined that a newly discovered martian meteorite ...

Detecting water where none remains today: Neutron and X-ray tomography make it possible. In an international study conducted with the participation of the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, researchers have ...

It would have been an astounding discovery. One that rewrote everything we knew, not just about Mars and its potential to harbor life, but also about the human race and its long-fabled quest to ...

Boston College scientists have determined a newly discovered meteorite from Mars is 1.27-billion years old and derived from a previously unsampled, pristine region of the planet, the team reported ...

So-called Martian meteorites are rocks that formed on Mars but which were ejected from the Red Planet as a result of the impact of an asteroid or comet. Some of these Martian rocks found their way to ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

Mars is hit by large meteorites creating a 30-metre wide crater once a month, scientists estimate – Copyright AFP RAHEB HOMAVANDI Mars is bombarded with basketball ...