The “Largest Piece of Mars on Earth” just sold at auction for about $5.3 million— $5,296,000, to be exact. Popular Science has reached out to Sotheby’s for confirmation of the sale price.

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Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...

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A new World Meteorological Organization report warns of the exacting toll that sand and dust storms are having on global health and economies. The report pinpoints South Africa’s West Coast as a dust ...

A new report by the United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has found that sand and dust storms are leading ...

Sand and dust storms affect about 330 million people in over 150 countries and are taking an increasing toll on health, economies and the environment, the ...