First discovery of life's building block in comet made

Monday, August 17, 2009 - 13:21 in Astronomy & Space

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA scientists have discovered glycine, a fundamental building block of life, in samples of comet Wild 2 returned by NASA's Stardust spacecraft.

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