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Comet could hold key to life

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Nasa has discovered what could be evidence of life on other planets, in chemicals found in the dust cloud of a comet.

The Stardust spacecraft collected material containing a protein essential for the formation of life from Comet Wild-2, when it was millions of miles away from Earth in 2004.

Pallab Ghosh reports.

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