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Study Finds Comet Impacts Unlikely to Have Delivered Key Prebiotic Molecules to Early Earth

Published Oct. 28, 2026, Cambridge simulations show atmospheric entry heating plus high impact speeds would destroy hydrogen cyanide, shifting the search for life’s building blocks to asteroids, Earth chemistry or Mars.

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Cambridge Study Finds Comets Unlikely Source of Earth's Prebiotic Molecules

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Webb Links Protostellar Bursts to Crystal Formation and Outflows in EC 53