Cosmic Ice Lab

How did amino acids, life’s raw ingredients, get to Earth in the first place?

They could have been produced inside asteroids or comets. Another option is that amino acids came intact from the interstellar molecular cloud of ice, gas, and dust that formed our solar system and others.

Goddard scientists explored how amino acids might have formed in the Cosmic Ice Laboratory: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/nasa-scientists-study-life-origins-by-simulating-a-mini-cosmic-evolution

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