The experiment showed that life could have arrived with the meteorite

A Japanese probe collected samples from the asteroid Ryugu in 2019. They found, among other things, amino acids important to life. Picture: Wikimedia Commons/JAXA Hayabusa 2

Could you life to move from one celestial body to another, for example on an asteroid? A recent US study supports the idea.

Asteroid impacts are very common, and most bodies in our solar system are full of impact craters.

There are especially many craters in our neighbor Mars, which could possibly have supported life in the past.