Rene Breton

One of the many unanswered questions about the origin of life on Earth is: where did organic molecules – those containing carbon, from which life as we know it is derived – come from? Given the conditions needed to create complex organic compounds, it was assumed that they were made on Earth. But chemical analysis of meteorites suggested that such chemistry could happen beyond Earth, too.

One of the many unanswered questions about the origin of life on Earth is: where did organic molecules – those containing carbon, from which life as we know it is derived – come from? Given the conditions needed to create complex organic compounds, it was assumed that they were made on Earth. But chemical analysis of meteorites suggested that such chemistry could happen beyond Earth, too.