New research has found that amino acids, the building blocks of life, may have traveled to Earth on interstellar dust grains, potentially helping kickstart biology as we know it. In a recent study ...

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New research has found that amino acids, the building blocks of life, may have traveled to Earth on interstellar dust grains, potentially helping kickstart biology as we know it. Subscribe to our ...

Coccolithophores, tiny planktonic architects of Earth’s climate, capture carbon, produce oxygen, and leave behind geological records that chronicle our planet’s history. European scientists are ...

Since at least 2016, a rumor has circulated online that "a speck of dust is halfway between the size of" an atom and Earth. However, Wendy Taylor, a particle physicist and professor of physics and ...

For billions of years, Earth has been bombarded by tiny particles of rock and metal from space. When these extraterrestrial specks hit the upper atmosphere at hypersonic speeds, they burn and melt ...