This Molecule May Have Seeded Earth Life
A new finding boosts Panspermia, the theory that life on Earth originated in deep space. The post This Molecule May Have Seeded Earth Life appeared first on Nautilus.
loating in the middle of our galaxy, near the center of the Milky Way, inside a cloud of gas that swirls at the temperature of 100 Kelvin or -279.67 Fahrenheit, a molecule essential to life on Earth has just been discovered. It sounds inconceivable that such a level of cosmic cold could harbor anything remotely related to a living organism—and yet it does. In fact, without this molecule, humans—and all other breathing, growing
