Using his metal detector, Hole was intrigued and took ... a 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite. Experts at the Melbourne Museum later confirmed that the rock was a rare H5 ordinary chondrite meteorite ...

They’re made up of minerals and metal, remnant materials from the first few million years of the solar system. They formed inside asteroids at a time when planets were only just coming together. If we ...

A new discovery has revealed that a 3,000-year-old treasure hoard in Spain contains iron from a meteorite ... to be crafted from meteoritic iron—metal that fell from space.