British astronomers believe the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko more livable than the polar regions of the Earth. Space object could be teeming with alien microbes that would explain rich in organic compounds the black crust of the comet. They are organized in more complex ways than simple carbohydrates.

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British astronomers believe the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko more livable than the polar regions of the Earth. Space object could be teeming with alien microbes that would explain rich in organic compounds the black crust of the comet. They are organized in more complex ways than simple carbohydrates.

Max Wallis from the University of Cardiff and Chandra Wickramasinghe of the Buckingham center for astrobiology believe that the presence of life on the comet explains the strangeness in its structure: the presence of ice, craters with flat bottom and megabalanus. In this environment of organics and ice can dwell unknown microorganisms. Flooded by the sun ice allows the microbes to survive in the cracks.

Space probes showed that the comet looks like a solid frozen space body. Scientists say that in it there is geologic activity, more hospitable to microorganisms than our Arctic and Antarctic regions.