Examining how terrestrial life's building blocks may have first formed
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 - 12:06
in Astronomy & Space
How did life begin? This is one of the most fundamental questions scientists puzzle over. To address it, they have to look not just back to the primordial Earth, but out into space. Now, scientists propose a new set of cosmic chemical reactions that could have contributed to the formation of life on our planet.