{"id":205175,"date":"2025-02-01T16:37:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T22:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/are-we-all-aliens-nasas-returned-asteroid-samples-hold-the-ingredients-of-life-from-a-watery-world"},"modified":"2025-02-01T16:37:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T22:37:04","slug":"are-we-all-aliens-nasas-returned-asteroid-samples-hold-the-ingredients-of-life-from-a-watery-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/are-we-all-aliens-nasas-returned-asteroid-samples-hold-the-ingredients-of-life-from-a-watery-world","title":{"rendered":"Are we all aliens? NASA\u2019s returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/are-we-all-aliens-nasas-returned-asteroid-samples-hold-the-ingredients-of-life-from-a-watery-world.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world, scientists reported Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ingredients were mingling with water almost right from the start.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the kind of environment that could have been essential to the steps that lead from elements to life,\u201d said the Smithsonian Institution\u2019s Tim McCoy, one of the lead study authors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world, scientists reported Wednesday. The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ingredients were mingling with water almost right [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205175","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\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}