Ancient Microbes May Help in Search for Life on Other Planets: Study

In what could be a major breakthrough in the study of life on other planets, scientists have reconstructed the condition in which the earliest organism on Earth must have existed. The reconstruction was done using light-capturing proteins in living microbes. The earliest life forms on Earth, including bacteria and single-celled organisms called archaea, inhabited a primarily oceanic planet to protect themselves from the sun’s radiation in the…