A new study led by the University of Cambridge challenges the long-standing idea that comets helped kick-start life on our home planet, suggesting that the icy bodies were largely unable to deliver the concentrated chemical ingredients needed for prebiotic chemistry.
The appearance of life on Earth is still a mystery. It's constrained by a few factors; for instance, the Earth had to have cooled before life could get started, and there had to be some liquid water, the right chemicals,…
What could a handful of dust reveal about the birth of our solar system? Scientists studying NASA's Bennu samples have found an unexpected clue buried in material billions of years old. Asteroid Bennu has been keeping a secret for 4.5 billion…
Comets probably weren’t reliable couriers for the ingredients that helped life begin on Earth. A new Cambridge-led study found that fragile organic molecules would usually have been destroyed when the comets carrying them struck the surface. Published in Scientific Reports,…
The speed and angle of impact would have destroyed most organic compounds from comets The chemical building blocks that gave rise to life on Earth probably didn’t come from comets. “Even though we see that comets contain all of these…
When comets hit Earth billions of years ago, they pelted the planet too fast and too steep for them to have delivered fragile organic molecules, according to a new study. Using advances in computer simulations, a University of Cambridge-led team…
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Dust that NASA brought back from the asteroid Bennu is changing the picture of where such ancient rocks were born. According to ScienceDaily, which summarized work from ETH Zurich, a new chemical analysis suggests Bennu formed from a blend of…
Samples collected from asteroid Bennu by NASA are revealing surprising new details about how our Solar System formed approximately 4.5 billion years ago. A new chemical analysis challenges earlier theories about the asteroid's birthplace and suggests that Jupiter played an important…
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The chemistry of meteorites and returned samples: Bennu, Ryugu and lunar rocks, and the amino acids and sugars they carry.
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