A major scientific conference held recently has hinted that life on Earth was likely originated from the Red planet, Mars.

The notion that the red planet used to be a better place wherein biology could start back billions of years has been supported by the latest research. The idea has prevailed for long that Mars had probably always been better as compared to the early Earth.

Lately, the theory's details have been framed by the Goldschmidt Meeting in Florence's Prof Steven Benner in Italy.

It is being claimed that the evidence for the same relies on how the assembly of the first molecules took place, which was essential for life.

This is not the first time that scientists wanted to know how atoms gathered together in the first place. They have wondered for years or, in fact, decades to find the same. These atoms made up the vital molecular components, three in number, viz. RNA, DNA and proteins, of living organisms.

Prof Benner and colleagues said that the molecules, which formed genetic material, were more complicated that the organic chemicals' primordial "pre-biotic" soup. The minerals, reportedly, likely, dissolved in early Earth's oceans, but remained abundant on Mars.

"This form of molybdenum couldn't be available on Earth at the time life first began, because three billion years ago, the surface of the Earth had very little oxygen, but Mars did", said Prof Benner.