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publisher_rssAvi LoebNov 6, 2026

Were the Building Blocks of Life Delivered to Earth?

  • A new study suggests that comets may not have delivered the building blocks of life to Earth due to the rapid decline in cometary impacts and the destruction of organic molecules during high-speed collisions.
  • The study challenges the long-standing hypothesis that comets provided the necessary prebiotic molecules, such as hydrogen cyanide, for life's origin on Earth.

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