Rock of ages: how asteroid dust may reveal secrets of life on Earth0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 17, 2020
A six-year mission will soon bring back a few grains of soil that could explain how water arrived on our planet
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Life on Earth may have begun in hostile hot springs0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- September 25, 2020
Understanding how complex molecules formed on our planet could guide the search for life elsewhere in the solar system
Process that might have led to first organic molecules0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- September 18, 2020
New research could have relevance to search for extraterrestrial life, green chemistry
White dwarfs reveal new insights into the origin of carbon in the universe0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 11, 2020
A new analysis of white dwarf stars supports their role as a key source of carbon, an element crucial to all life, in the Milky Way and other galaxies.
What meteors and meteorites can tell us about how the Earth was made and the origin of life0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Space
- May 19, 2020
What do you think of when you hear “meteor”?
Humans Really Are Made of Stardust, and a New Study Proves It0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- March 18, 2020
For decades, science popularizers have said humans are made of stardust, and now, a new survey of 150,000 stars shows just how true the old cliché is: Humans and their galaxy have about 97 percent of the same kind of atoms, and the elements of life appear to be more prevalent toward the galaxy’s center, the research found.
Scientists Have Discovered the Origins of the Building Blocks of Life0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 18, 2020
Rutgers researchers retraced the evolution of enzymes over billions of years
How the dinosaur-killing asteroid primed Earth for modern life0
- Ancient Archeology, Science & Technology
- January 18, 2020
Marine die-offs after the impact may have created opportunities for the life that survived around the globe, new data reveal.
Early Asteroid Impacts Could Have Spurred Today’s Tectonic Activity0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- December 4, 2019
A new study links a slew of extra-terrestrial impacts millions of years ago to our planet’s most unique feature—plate tectonics.
Extraterrestrial Sugar Found in Space Rocks Show that Meteorites May Have Led to Origin of Life on Earth0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 22, 2019
In a first, an international team has found sugars essential to life in meteorites.
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