(AP) A New York City auction will offer 125 meteorites for sale, including a large chunk of the moon and a 179-pound iron cosmic rock that evokes Edvard Munch’s iconic painting “The Scream.” The sale, ...

NEW YORK -- The Willamette Meteorite is a sacred icon to the Oregon-based Clackamas Indians. The tribe has its own name for the massive space rock, Tomanowas, and holds an annual religious ceremony ...

The largest piece of Mars to ever make its way to Earth is now also the most valuable meteorite in the world. The large space rock, which has the scientific name of NWA 16788, had its Martian origins ...

A piece of Mars delivered from space is soon going to the auction circuit, and is supposedly going to demand a hefty price. The piece, NWA 16788, uncovered on December 16, 2023, from the remote Agadez ...

This record-breaking rock had losing bidders seeing red. At one of Sotheby’s Geek Week events, this Martian meteorite smashed through bidding expectations, which were between $2M to $4M. This ...

Part of my personal cosmic journey will come to an end on July 22, 2023, when my private meteorite collection is sold by Heritage Auctions of Dallas. I became entirely smitten with meteorites at the ...

The first thing you see when you step into the Campo del Cielo nature reserve parking lot is what looks like a large bowl in the ground about half the size of a football field. It’s a crater made by a ...

A handful of meteorites crash-landed outside Berlin in late January and, after further inspection, turned out to be one of the rarest types of space rock ever recovered on Earth. Last month, a ...

A polished sphere fashioned from a meteorite that crash-landed into a dry riverbed in Russia soared again Wednesday, not through space but at an auction house, snagging $130,000 – nine times its ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City auction is offering 125 meteorites for sale. It includes a large chunk of the moon and a 179-pound iron cosmic rock that evokes Edvard Munch's iconic painting "The ...