New study refutes early research, which had claimed lightning to be the energy source behind the formation of prebiotic molecules.
was a ball of rock. After a series of meteor showers, volcanic eruptions, and other supernatural events, the earliest forms of life, which we now know to be microscopic organisms, came about. Historical evidence and fossils, which left their imprints on rocks and other formations, tell us that life began at least 3.5 billion years ago.
“That was a big revelation,” said Vladimir Airapetian, a stellar astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and co-author of the paper. “From the basic components of early Earth’s atmosphere, you can synthesize these complex organic molecules.”
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