Comets May Have Delivered Many of Life's Building Blocks to Early Earth

Thursday, June 8, 2017 - 15:02 in Astronomy & Space

A new study suggests that about 20 percent of the noble gas xenon in Earth's atmosphere was delivered by comets long ago. And these icy wanderers likely brought lots of other stuff to our planet as well, researchers said.

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