New asteroid sample study offers further hints of space origin for the building blocks of life on Earth
- Written by: Trevor Ireland, Professor, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland
MASCOT / DLR / JAXAHow did life come about? The answer to this question goes to the very heart of our existence on planet Earth.
Did life simply arise from chemical reactions among organic compounds in a primordial soup left after Earth clumped together from space rubble? If so, where did the organic compounds come from?
Some of the so-called...