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The hypothesis that life, or its precursors, can spread between worlds through space.
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A theory for how life or its precursors might travel between planets.Use for a speculative origin of life in which organisms or biological precursors move between worlds.
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Panspermia offered one explanation for the matching microbes found in both samples.
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