Their millimetre-sized granules give chondrites their name, from the Greek 'chondres' meaning sand grains. There are many varieties of chondrite, with differences in mineralogy relating to the type of ...

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 ...

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

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

The meteorite has had British scientists in raptures of joy. It's a carbonaceous chondrite - a dark stony material that retains unaltered chemistry from the formation of our Solar System 4.6 ...

The sight of a fireball streaking across the sky brings wonder and excitement to children and adults alike. It’s a reminder ...

It weighs a whopping 17 kilograms (37.5 pounds), and after using a diamond saw to cut off a small slice, the researchers ...

The answer turns out to be quite simple – previous estimates meteorites were just too high. Using a new analytical technique, the team looked at different kinds of chondrite meteorites, a type of ...

A man named David Hole was once searching for valuable items using his metal detector in Maryborough Regional Park, located ...

“We think that Earth mostly accreted from enstatite chondrite-like materials,” Barnes says. Until recently enstatite meteorites were considered too dry to have supplied Earth’s wate ...

Of the approximately 65,000 meteorites in collections worldwide, only 1,206 had eyewitnesses to their fall, and of these only 51 are of the carbonaceous chondrite type. Because this fireball was ...