In 2015, David Hole discovered a 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite in Maryborough, Australia. Initially mistaking it for a gold ...

A TREASURE hunter was on cloud nine when he realised the grubby piece of rock he thought was gold turned out to be far more ...

Iron meteorites are rare, however, especially in Antarctica. Less than 1% of all the space rocks recovered in searches on the continent are of the metal type, compared with about 5% elsewhere in ...

Get to know the main groups of meteorite. They differ in their amount of iron-nickel metal and what they reveal about the early solar system. Most iron meteorites are thought to be the cores of ...

Incredibly dense for its size at almost 40 pounds, finder Dave Hole of Australia was convinced it must have contained a ...

This survey gear has just come through a week of successful trials. Presently, 10 times fewer iron meteorites are found in Antarctica compared with other parts of the globe. The scientists say ...

As the name suggests, these are made of rock. Only about 6 per cent of meteorites in collections around the world are iron-rich – these are rare and rather special beasts. They are thought to ...

Here’s a gift idea for the holiday season — if you don’t mind something a little old, as in 4.5 billion years old. An iron ...