Russia's customs service says a 2.8-ton chunk of the Aletai meteorite was found in a shipping container, labeled as a garden ornament.

As mysterious as large parts of our solar system are, we're learning more and more about Mars all the time. As it turns out, the red planet has quite a lot in common with Earth, and is of particular ...

The recent auction of a Martian meteorite -- for a record-grabbing $5.3 million at Sotheby's New York -- has sparked questions over its provenance and renewed debate over who gets to claim rocks ...

Declared as garden décor, a massive object stopped at a Russian port turned out to be a rare space relic, triggering legal ...

Russian investigators have prevented a giant meteorite fragment being smuggled to Britain disguised as a garden ornament, the ...

The largest Martian meteorite ever found on Earth is being auctioned off later this month and could fetch up to $4 million. One of only 400 of its kind ever found, the hunk of red-hued space rock was ...

The 54-pound Martian meteorite NWA 16788, the largest known piece of Mars ever discovered on Earth, was sold for a record $5.3 million at Sotheby's New York ...