Mars Inc. said it planned to remove food dyes from its products in 2016 but has since said this won't apply to certain treats.

The largest piece of Mars on Earth became the most valuable meteorite ever sold at auction at Sotheby’s annual ”Geek Week,” and a full Ceratosaurus skeleton fetched $30 million. Next up for bidding: an Apple computer hand-built by Steve Jobs.

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, while a juvenile dinosaur skeleton went for more than $30 million.

Oil major Exxon Mobil bought Mars crude for August delivery, two sources said on Wednesday, after briefly halting purchases of the flagship offshore grade due to a zinc contamination issue.

Due to extreme temperatures and the dryness of Mars, it's thought to be impossible for liquid water to form on the planet's surface, a critical precondition for habitability. The only hope of finding liquid water appears to be in the form of brines,

"Dust devils themselves are difficult to capture in images because they are so short-lived," Ingrid Daubar, a planetary scientist at Brown University and lead author of the study, told Space.com by email. "The tracks they leave behind last longer, so we are able to observe them more thoroughly."

The auction of the largest piece of Mars on Earth exceeded Sotheby's expectations, fetching US$5.3 million. The largest known fragment of Mars on Earth was auctioned on Wednesday for a total of US$5.3 million (approximately €4.5 million). This was ...

Still, some challenges need to be worked out for companies eying the unique manufacturing process. For SpaceX, its plans involve the Starship rocket, which has faced setbacks in recent months following its recent explosion on a test stand at its Texas facilities and previous launches similarly meeting a fiery end.