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The vital ingredients for life on Earth may have been delivered by meteorites from planetesimals in the early solar system, new research suggests.

They’re the building rocks of life. Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present in the early days of our solar ...

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NASA has confirmed the discovery of an Earth-sized planet parked right in the “habitable zone” of a distant red dwarf star.

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The vital ingredients for life on Earth may have been delivered by meteorites from larger bodies called "planetesimals" in the early solar system. The discovery could assist in the search for ...

The key ingredients for life on Earth came from space, new evidence suggests. Robert Lea. Fri, October 11, 2024 at 6:07 PM UTC. 4 min read.