Asteroid Sample Leads to New Hypotheses About the Origins of Life
Scientists analyzed the molecular contents of a sample retrieved from the asteroid Bennu to find both clues and surprises about the possible origin of life on Earth.
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Sailing the Seas of Alien Worlds: The fate of oceans on rocky planets
Presented by Laura Schaefer
Searching for life in our galaxy means first finding liquid water. Water is found throughout our Solar System in many different forms, but the Earth, because of its balmy temperatures and unique geology, is the only known…
A step towards the primordial soup
Fossilized remains of cyanobacteria thought to be among the first organisms on earth (Wikimedia Commons).
How did life originate? This puzzle has been studied by scientists for hundreds of years. Authors of a new paper in Nature have made significant…
New route to the origin of life? Probably not.
From Scientists recreate what may be life’s first spark
Credit: Wikimedia Commons, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleobase#mediaviewer/File:DNA_chemical_structure.svg
How did life originate? This puzzle has been studied by scientists for hundreds of…