New technique could be used to search space dust for life's ingredients
Tuesday, February 4, 2014 - 06:00
in Astronomy & Space
While the origin of life remains mysterious, scientists are finding more and more evidence that material created in space and delivered to Earth by comet and meteor impacts could have given a boost to the start of life. Some meteorites supply molecules that can be used as building blocks to make certain kinds of larger molecules that are critical for life.