{"id":152218,"date":"2022-12-08T15:29:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T21:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/gamma-ray-and-meteorites-helped-life-form-in-outer-space-a-study-suggests"},"modified":"2022-12-08T15:29:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T21:29:42","slug":"gamma-ray-and-meteorites-helped-life-form-in-outer-space-a-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/gamma-ray-and-meteorites-helped-life-form-in-outer-space-a-study-suggests","title":{"rendered":"Gamma-ray and meteorites helped life form in outer space, a study suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gamma-ray-and-meteorites-helped-life-form-in-outer-space-a-study-suggests2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first-of-its-kind experiment proved that gamma ray-catalyzed reactions can produce amino acids, which contributed to the origin of life on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>How life arose on Earth remains one of science\u2019s most complex mysteries. One of the many myths and hypotheses is the possibility of meteorites delivering amino acids, known as life\u2019s building blocks, to our planet.<\/p>\n<p>In a first-of-its-kind experiment, researchers have shown that amino acids might have formed in early meteorites from reactions driven by gamma rays produced inside space rocks due to the decay of radioactive elements.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In an experiment, researchers demonstrated that the building blocks of life could have formed in early meteorites from reactions driven by gamma rays produced inside the space rocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first-of-its-kind experiment proved that gamma ray-catalyzed reactions can produce amino acids, which contributed to the origin of life on Earth. How life arose on Earth remains one of science\u2019s most complex mysteries. One of the many myths and hypotheses is the possibility of meteorites delivering amino acids, known as life\u2019s building blocks, to our [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}