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Space
Space
Science
Robert Lea

Building blocks of life on Earth left the Milky Way before being pulled back in

An illustration of gas flowing out of a galaxy (purple) and then back in (red) on a cosmic conveyer belt.

New research suggests that the carbon that serves as the building blocks of life "took the long way around" the galaxy before coming together to make up our bodies here on Earth.

The scientists behind this research discovered that carbon and other elements don't just sit placidly in galaxies after being forged by stars and dispersed by supernova explosions.

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