The odds of this getting from there to here are astronomically small, Sotheby’s Cassandra Hatton said, as record-breaking ...

A meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars on Earth has sold for a hammer price of $4.3 million to an anonymous ...

Mercury is a mysterious world. As the closest planet to the sun, it’s a hard-to-reach destination for space missions. So far, only two have made it to Mercury—NASA’s Mariner 10 and MESSENGER ...

The largest individual Martian rock ever found on Earth has sold at a Sotheby's auction for almost US$5.3 million, to an ...

A chunk of the Martian surface that made an unlikely voyage to Earth will be available to the highest bidder at Sotheby's ...

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

A huge and “incredibly rare” chunk of Mars that crash-landed in the Sahara will go on sale for nearly $2m at auction. Sotheby ...

At first glance, it might seem like an ordinary hunk of stone, but this particular rock is poised to fetch upwards of AU$6 ...

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...

As wealthy buyers rush for these new collectibles, museums and universities risk turning into impotent onlookers ...

If the new age of these Canadian rocks is solid, they would be the first and only ones known to have survived Earth’s earliest, tumultuous time.