The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects in New York on Wednesday.

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth has sold for just over $5 million at a Sotheby's auction in New York. But a rare skeleton of a young dinosaur stole the show, fetching more than

The largest piece of Mars ever discovered on Earth was sold for more than $5 million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects in New York.Named NWA 16788, the 54-pound (25-kilogram) rock was unearthed by a meteorite hunter in Niger’s Sahara Desert in November 2023.