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Did life on Earth originate when burning meteorites full of carbon molecules or single-celled organisms crashed to our planet and scattered their seeds? It's very possible, according to proponents of the theory of …
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We usually think of asteroid impacts as harbingers of mass extinction, but they might be the reason life exists on our planet at all. It's possible for bacteria to hitch rides on rocks ejected by space impacts and move …
Also tagged: space, science, impact, asteroid, meteoroid, exogenesis, lithopanspermia
There is an organism living on this planet who can travel through space without a suit. Cute, unassuming little invertebrates, these organisms are called tardigrades, or water bears, and usually spend their days …
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How life got started on Earth is still a big problem for scientists. The story goes something like this: "Well, there was this primordial soup of amino acids and stuff, then maybe there was some lightning, or …
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Life on Earth might actually be Martian — or Europan, or Titanese. Or maybe our ancestors came from outside our solar system, flung up from a distant planet (perhaps Caprica?) billions of years ago and migrated to …
Also tagged: mars, alien, europa, asteroid, lichen, cyanobacteria, microbe