The building blocks of life can spontaneously come into existence when icy comets smash into planets, according to a study.
A similar process can create amino acids when a rocky meteorite strikes an ice-covered planet.
Scientists say the discovery suggests the basic building blocks of life can be assembled anywhere in the Solar System.
How often the building blocks end up constructing proteins and living organisms is an unanswered question.
But the research fills in another piece of the puzzle of life’s origins on Earth.
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