There are more amino acids in space than we have on Earth. There's no potentials there for life as we know it. We need to make sure that what we bring back doesn't end up with Earth bugs on it and we don't know where they've come from.
Have we disproven the idea of a “goldilocks zone”? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Paul Mecurio learn about space geology, magnetic fields, volcanoes, and the origins of life with cosmochemist Natalie Starkey, PhD.
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