"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

As seen in the map above, using data from the U.S. Geological Survey, Australia benefits from a substantial mineral endowment. Australia is home to numerous deposits of rare earths like xenotime and ...

FOR roughly a century the development of tropical Australia proceeded in an atmosphere of unqualified optimism. It was almost universally believed that only capital and enterprise were needed to ...