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Did Life on Earth Come From Outer Space?

• https://motherboard.vice.com, Daniel Oberhaus

Where did life come from? It remains one the biggest questions in biology, and has preoccupied scientists for hundreds of years. The problem, simply put, is that the universe began as a roiling cosmic soup of inanimate matter, but eventually gave rise to a diverse multitude of lifeforms. Since the Earth is the only place in the universe where we know for sure that life exists, the search for its origins has historically been limited to terra firma.

Over the last few decades, biologists have increasingly shifted their focus outwards toward the cosmos and wondered: could life on Earth have originated in outer space?

This hypothesis, which dates back a hundred years or more, is known as panspermia. It was first theorized in a scientifically rigorous way by Chandra Wickramasinghe in 1974.


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