An Australian man spent years trying to crack open what he thought was a gold-rich rock-only to learn it was a rare meteorite ...

A man searching for gold in Maryborough Regional Park, Victoria, Australia has stumbled on something far more ancient - a 17-kilogram rock he first believed held a nugget now has been confirmed as a 4 ...

A team of scientists in Australia have discovered an ancient meteorite buried in a salt lake, one they believe to be 4.5 billion years old. “It is older than the Earth itself. It’s the oldest rock you ...

It was a respectable tenure, but the world’s oldest known meteorite site is no longer western Australia’s 2.2 billion-year-old, 43-mile-wide Yarrabubba crater. Researchers at Curtin University and the ...

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than three billion years ago is changing the way scientists view the history of Earth and the planet's stages of evolution.

At 10:58 AM on Sept. 28, 1969, residents of the small farming community of Murchison, Victoria, in Australia, heard a series of loud booms. The noise was accompanied by a strong smell and a streak of ...

Discovery and ancient beliefs -- Anatomy of a crater -- A meteoritic footprint -- How was Wolfe Creek Crater formed? -- Australia's impact record. The crater map of Australia -- Why formed by a ...

People in Australia’s Victoria reported a loud sonic boom that rattled houses as a meteor streaked past the night sky on Sunday. Footage of the space rock burning brightly was shared on social media ...

Today's meteror can be tomorrow's (star) dust. Feb. 19, 2013 -- Meteorite hunters are converging on Chelyabinsk, Russia, seeking pieces of a space rock that exploded above that city last week, ...