After analyzing samples collected by the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 from both the Ryugu asteroid and Murchison meteorite, researchers determined that it contained an organic compound known as ...

Analysis of organic compounds -- called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) -- extracted from the Ryugu asteroid and Murchison meteorite has found that certain PAHs likely formed in the cold ...

"The idea that homochirality may have originated in space was suggested after AAs were found in the Murchison meteorite that fell in Australia in 1969," explains Dr. Shoji.

Observations of the young HOPS-315 star system show an environment analogous to what our own nascent Solar System would have ...

In April 2019, rare primitive meteorites fell near the town of Aguas Zarcas in northern Costa Rica. In an article published online in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, an international ...

Fifty years ago, a meteorite fell to Earth and landed in Australia, carrying with it a rare sample from interstellar space. A new analysis of the meteorite revealed stardust that formed between ...

In pieces of a meteorite, scientists have found tiny mineral grains that are older than the sun and the solar system, which formed about 4.6 billion years ago. Some of these “presolar grains,” the ...

The last time meteorites like this fell in such numbers was in 1969, near Murchison, Australia. Back then, scientists had just returned from the Moon and were hungry for space rocks.

“We know of other Murchison-like meteorites that broke off at approximately the same time, and likely in the same event,” said Welten, “but most broke much more recently.” The team determined the rock ...

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 ...

Updated: 4:17 PM PST Jan 13, 2020 By Ashley Strickland The oldest material on Earth has been found in a meteorite Updated: 4:17 PM PST Jan 13, 2020 ...