The scientific community is largely divided into two camps regarding the origins of life on Earth. On one side, the idea that life spontaneously stemmed from the planet’s primordial soup of amino acids and organic molecules. To do this, they first synthesized amorphous magnesium silicate, some of the most prevalent cosmic dust particles. The study’s authors believe this suggests the potential existence of an “astromineralogical selection mechanism” that ensured only certain amino acids could stick to cosmic dust. This influx of cosmic amino acids would have possibly made up for the limited amount of naturally forming molecules on Earth, thus creating conditions that sparked life.