Deep Impact of the Third Kind: DNA in Meteors

Australian meteorite behind 'space DNA' discovery

A METEORITE which crashed in Australia more than four decades ago has led to a major new discovery about the nature of humankind.

Writers and filmmakers have for decades hypothesised about little green men "out there" somewhere, but it turns out alien life may actually exist closer to home.

Much, much closer.

NASA overnight said researchers had discovered that some of the building blocks of DNA found in meteorites were actually created in space — lending weight to the idea that life on Earth began with material from the cosmos.

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