Research shows that comet impacts may have led to life on Earth—and perhaps elsewhere
Tuesday, August 18, 2015 - 17:30
in Astronomy & Space
Comet impact on Earth are synonymous with great extinctions, but now research presented at the Goldschmidt geochemistry conference in Prague shows that early comet impact would have become a driving force to cause substantial synthesis of peptides - the first building blocks of life. This may have implications for the genesis of life on other worlds.