Newly Discovered Alien Seeds Change the Way We Think About Our Origins

Did scientists just discover that the origins of life on Earth were seeded by extraterrestrials? Are we one step closer to revealing the truth?

So we launched some high-flying balloons to do some science stuff. They drifted around in our stratosphere, about 17 miles up, and when they came back down, scientists found something interesting. On the surface of one of these balloons, there was a tiny impact crater, as if something very small hit the balloon at a high velocity. Inside this little indentation was a small sphere oozing some kind of goop. It doesn't get more 1970's comic book than this.

Oh no! There's going to be some opposition to this one.

This is either an amazing PR stunt by Disney/Marvel to announce that Venom is joining the Avengers, or we have the biggest controversy story since the black and blue/gold and white dress debate of 2015.

Upon studying the foreign object, scientists observed that this microscopic globe is made out of titanium and vanadium. It's about the width of a human hair. According to astrobiologist Milton Wainwright, the globe is spewing a "gooey biological material."

This isn't something we normally bump into in nature, but the idea that life on Earth didn't originate on Earth is nothing new. In fact, we're all made out of long-dead star stuff anyway, it only makes sense that our beginnings come from space. Of course, there are people who would disagree: