Ingredient for life detected in comet dust
Monday, August 17, 2009 - 20:07
in Astronomy & Space
It is the first time an amino acid has turned up in comet material, bolstering the idea that the building blocks of biology are 'ubiquitous' in space. Showing that the ingredients for life in the universe may be distributed far more widely than previously thought, scientists have found traces of a key building block of biology in dust snatched from the tail of...