Not only is Murchison rich in organic compounds, it's old. Scientists believe the Murchison meteorite could have originated before the Sun was formed, 4.65 billion years ago.

Some of that dust eventually hitched a ride to Earth on an asteroid that produced the Murchison meteorite, a massive, 220-lb. (100 kilograms) rock that fell on Sept. 28, 1969, near Murchison ...

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 ...

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 ...

The samples came from the famous Murchison meteorite, which fell to Earth in Australia in 1969. When tiny, energetic particles called cosmic rays zip through space, they can strike minerals within ...

"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.

To hunt for such evidence, the researchers analyzed samples from the Murchison meteorite, which crashed in 1969 near the town of Murchison, in the Australian state of Victoria.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...