NASA confirms building blocks of life found on comets
Artist’s conception of Stardust flying through gas and dust from comet Wild 2 (Image: NASA/JPL)
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Fresh evidence has been revealed to support the theory that life on Earth began in space. NASA’s Stardust probe, a specially-designed comet ‘chaser’, successfully collected particles shed from Comet Wild 2 in 2004, and NASA scientists have since confirmed for the first time that amino acids can indeed be found on these extraterrestrial bodies.
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