Sentence examples for seed life from inspiring English sources

Since the craft arrived at 67P/Churyumov Gerasimenko in August 2014, the $1bn European Space Agency (ESA) mission has revealed what comets look like (sometimes duck-shaped), what they're made of and that - far from being portents of doom - comets helped seed life on Earth.

Q&A: Should we seed life on alien worlds?

The suspected presence of organic molecules would bolster arguments that comets helped seed life on Earth, he notes.

According to Merritt et al. (2014) seed life span depends on seed traits, along with the biotic and abiotic components of their environment.

If a planet isn't tectonically active, that means it has no volcanoes and can't produce carbon dioxide, and that's a really important building block to have when trying to seed life.

Although the researchers may indeed have found another medium within which complex molecules can interact in sophisticated ways, Turnbull says, it remains to be seen whether the right conditions exist in space for these structures to become "complex enough to seed life on young planets".

For all we know, life on one planet may have "seeded" life on another at some time.

Scientists discovered that the comet contains organic compounds that may have seeded life on Earth as well as water and molecular oxygen.

That raises the intriguing possibility that pieces of Mars containing microbes were blasted into space by asteroid impacts and later landed on Earth, seeding life here.

Clouds of gas and dust collapsed and lit up as stars, which in turn began to transform the universe from primordial hydrogen and helium into the rich mix of elements like carbon and oxygen that have seeded life and wonder today.

The Plant Experiment Unit was designed to be installed in the Cell Biology Experiment Facility and to support the seed-to-seed life cycle experiment of Arabidopsis plants in space in the project named Space Seed.