For sale: A 54-pound (25-kilogram) rock. Estimated auction price: $2 million to $4 million. Why so expensive? It's the ...

NWA 16788 is the largest martian meteorite ever found, weighing in at 54 pounds. Soon, it’ll be up for auction.

On Wednesday, Sotheby’s will auction off a chunk of rock believed to have originated on Mars for an anticipated two to four ...

Elmore County man Joe Champion claims he recently discovered a rare meteorite in a load of soil and rock he was sorting through. Champion identified the find as a pallasite meteorite, which are ...

Take, for example, pallasite meteorites – extra-terrestrial rocks that are strung through with gemstones, offering tantalizing glimpses into our Solar System’s deep history.

The meteorite was broken into smaller pieces for study and sale, but its original mass remains one of the most scientifically important and visually captivating pallasites ever found.

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Meteorite hunters are citizen scientists who track down meteorites, facing arduous and sometimes dangerous tasks.

Esquel is a stony-iron pallasite meteorite that was found in Argentina in 1951. It's widely considered to be one of the most beautiful meteorites ever found. Credit: Dave Eicher ...

One such meteorite type is pallasite, which makes up less than one percent of all collected meteorites around the world. Although the Peabody already owned some pallasite specimens, Sipiera donated a ...

The specimen, called a pallasite, recently arrived at the Peabody along with a trove of more than 1,800 other meteorite specimens donated to Yale by the Planetary Studies Foundation (PSF), a U.S.