Did humans not originate from Earth? That is a question which has always puzzled scientists. Now, a social media claim has gone viral as it states that a 2 billion-year-old asteroid contains human DNA components and that life on Earth may have indeed come from space. Firstly, the asteroid being talked about is not just two, but actually 4.5 billion years old.
This very contentious idea, which is linked to the theory of panspermia, has always intrigued a lot of people around the world. The excitement in this case is based on results from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to the near Earth asteroid Bennu, which returned rock and dust samples in 2023. Shockingly, analysis of these samples has revealed some organic chemistry that existed before life arose on our planet.
