Comets and meteors have been raining debris on Earth for billions of years, and scientists think they just may be the vehicles that carried the "stuff of life" to the planet. Early Earth was ...

The Murchison meteorite fall occurred just two months after the Apollo 11 mission. The recovered pieces showed that evidence of having been altered by liquid water on its parent body before an ...

A new analysis of an ancient meteorite that fell to Earth in 1969 reveals millions of complex compounds, underscoring the richness of our galaxy’s primordial soup. More than 200 pounds of the ...

In 1969, a 4.6-billion-year-old meteorite fell to Earth. It showered a rural Australian town with chunks of smelly, black rocks and — more consequentially, overjoyed scientists. The Murchison ...

The Australian town of Murchison, Victoria, is home to fewer than 1,000 people but is one of the most important sites in the history of astronomy. In 1969, a huge meteorite fell to Earth, breaking ...

By examining particles of the Murchison meteorite, which fell over Australia in 1969, a team of researchers has unlocked clues to how methane gas is generated in the atmosphere of Mars.

"Only a few meteorites are as large as Murchison and as rich in grains as Murchison," he said. A fragment of the Murchison meteorite that fell to Earth on September 28, 1969, in Victoria, Australia.

Remarkably, the find comes from a meteorite that fell to Earth some 60 years ago — rhe Murchison meteorite. With a mass of around 220 pounds, the rock landed near Murchison, Victoria in ...

Scientists have analyzed stardust from a meteorite that fell to Earth 50 years ago, and according to their calculations, the 5- to 7-billion-year-old stardust is the oldest solid material ever ...

For years scientists had been finding organic compounds in meteorites, but could not rule out the possibility that they were Earth-based contamination. Then, in 1969, the Murchison meteorite ...