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The emergence of life on Earth was dependent on a precise cocktail of critical ingredients, one of which is phosphorus. Prior to this study, it had been thought that meteorites provided the needed ...

Scientists still debate the origins of Earth's life-sustaining elements. BlackJack3D/E+ via Getty Images For many years, scientists have predicted that many of the elements that are crucial ...

To do that, scientists need untouched samples—material that hasn’t been altered by Earth’s air, water, ... Scientists discover the ingredients of life on asteroid. Joseph Shavit. April 13, ...

Scientists know that the ingredients necessary to form life appeared on Earth early in its history, but they’re still trying to figure out exactly how that happened. A new study suggests that ...

Phosphates: Key Ingredients for Life on Earth Could Have Originated in Deep Space. Published Oct 01, 2018 at 12:36 PM EDT Updated Jun 19, 2019 at 5:35 AM EDT. Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

Take, for example, the notion that life on Earth emerged out of something called a “primordial soup”—a fluid mix of organic compounds that contained the necessary ingredients for biology.

Life as we know it requires three main ingredients: liquid water, organic molecules and an energy source. Planetesimals, which formed within 1.5 million years of the solar system's birth, likely ...

Scientists have debated how life on Earth began, with theories ranging from deep-sea hydrothermal vents to primordial soup experiments. Now, a groundbreaking discovery of asteroid fragments has ...

Scientists know that the ingredients necessary to form life appeared on Earth early in its history, but they’re still trying to figure out exactly how that happened. A new study suggests that ...

Some crucial ingredients for life on Earth may have formed in interstellar space, rather than on the planet's surface. A new computer model indicates clouds of adenine molecules, a basic component ...