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Gravitational waves spotted by LIGO reveal two black holes, 140 and 100 times the mass of the sun, merged to become a 225 solar mass behemoth.
The odds of this getting from there to here are astronomically small, Sotheby’s Cassandra Hatton said, as record-breaking ...
The whopping 25-kilogram Martian rock will be sold at a special natural history-themed auction at Sotheby's in New York this ...
A rare Martian meteorite discovered in the Sahara Desert in 2023 represents 6.5% of all known Martian material on Earth and ...
Sotheby's is putting some rare items up for auction, including what it calls the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth.
The 54 pound chunk from Mars was found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 and could set a record when it appears at auction this ...
Astronomers have traced the origins of 200 meteorites to five impact craters in two volcanic regions on Mars, known as Tharsis and Elysium.
Mars once hosted a lake larger than any on Earth. The broken-down and dried-up remnants of this ancient lakebed are shown here in amazing detail by ESA's Mars Express.
Hundreds of basketball-size space rocks slam into Mars each year, leaving behind impact craters and causing rumblings across the red planet, according to new research.
An asteroid that slammed into Mars around 2.3 million years ago left one nine-mile wide crater and created 2 billion smaller craters.
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a NASA spacecraft, captured a clear view of a relatively recent impact crater on the Red Planet. It's evidence of our still-dynamic solar system.