Asteroids may have fostered the emergence of life on Earth

Analysis of an impact crater suggests that asteroids not only caused massive destruction but also created conditions favorable to the emergence of life.

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This discovery challenges the classical view that meteorite impacts brought only catastrophe and extinction.

Scientists propose that certain chemical and energetic conditions induced by these impacts may have stimulated abiogenesis.

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