The Martian rock, known as NWA 16788, is 70% larger than the next biggest piece of Mars that has been recovered, according to the auction house.

The red, brown and gray meteorite is believed to have been blown off the surface of Mars by an asteroid strike.

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.

"Dust devils themselves are difficult to capture in images because they are so short-lived," Ingrid Daubar, a planetary ...

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

"Our work is a new piece of evidence that suggests that Mars was once a much more complex and active planet than it is now." ...

Mars and Earth share similar origins: rocky planets with water and carbon, located in a potentially habitable zone. Yet one ...