50 years ago, scientists caught their first glimpse of amino acids from outer space
Excerpt from the December 5, 1970 issue of Science News
![Murchison meteorite fragment](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/102320_MT_50YA-meteorites_feat.jpg?fit=1030%2C580&ssl=1)
Fifty years ago, scientists discovered protein building blocks called amino acids in the Murchison meteorite (a fragment is shown, right; isolated particles, left), which landed in Australia in 1969.
Argonne National Laboratory