"Given how rare such evidence is due to [Earth's] geological recycling processes, this is a major breakthrough in understanding early Earth," Chris Kirkland of Curtin University in Australia ...

It was a respectable tenure, but the world’s oldest known meteorite site is no longer western Australia’s 2.2 ... as well as the history of life on Earth. The Archean Eon (4–2.5 million ...

Meteorites then might have served as the cosmic Mayflowers that transported molecular seeds to Earth. In 1969, the Murchison meteorite that fell in Australia contained dozens of different amino ...