In 2015, David Hole was prospecting in Maryborough Regional Park near Melbourne, Australia. Armed with a metal detector, he ...

Maryborough Meteorite: A man searching for gold in Australia instead unearthed a 17-kilogram meteorite, estimated to be 4.6 ...

The rock had been sitting in Australia for hundreds of years until David Hole came across it while digging for gold.

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Meteorites are the recordkeepers of our solar system. As parts of ...

A new study has found that the minerology of the rocks that a meteorite hits, rather than the size of the impact, determines how deadly an impact it will have. A new University of Liverpool study has ...

The researchers pose with the 16.7-pound meteorite on a snowscape in Antarctica. Scientists recently scooped up one of the heaviest meteorites ever discovered in Antarctica, as well as four other ...

An unusually bright fireball crashed in Maine on Saturday afternoon. The Maine Mineral and Gem Museum wants a piece of the rare meteorite for its collection. The first person to find a softball-sized ...

What could be a meteorite struck a home in Hopewell Township, New Jersey, authorities said Monday. The metallic object crashed through the roof of a house and ricocheted around a bedroom. No one was ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. On a chilly February night in 2021, Winchcombe, a garden-girdled ...

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