The recent auction of a Martian meteorite -- for a record-grabbing $5.3 million at Sotheby's New York -- has sparked questions over its provenance and renewed debate over who gets to claim rocks ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - One of the few meteorites from the surface of Mars could fetch millions of dollars at auction. The meteorite, known as the "last piece of Mars on Earth," is 54 pounds and holds the ...

An all-female research group, As Meteoriticas, scours the South American country’s interior aiming to preserve meteorites for ...

A meteorite fragment that burst through the roof of a Georgia home last June has been determined to be billions of years old and to predate the Earth, according to a geology professor. "A lot of ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -A 54-pound (24.5-kg) Martian meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars found on Earth has sold for $5.3 million at Sotheby's, setting a new auction record for a meteorite.

The statue is some 24 centimeters tall, weighs 10.6 kilograms. Sept. 29, 2012— -- The statue was first discovered by the Nazis in Tibet as they were searching for the origins of the Aryan race.

A group of researchers has tracked the meteor's path and says fragments could be scattered in several locations ...

It was four times the size of Mount Everest, unleashed a tsunami bigger than any in known human history and boiled the oceans — but an ancient meteor may also have nurtured life on Earth after ...

MANILA, Philippines — Six of the seven Philippine meteorites are now under the care of the National Museum. A group of space enthusiasts collectively known as the Bayanihan Meteorite Recovery Team ...