The cosmic butterfly has also produced plenty of PAHs – large hydrocarbon molecules that could play a key early role in prebiotic chemistry. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

If you were to boil all of biology down to a simple equation, it would be that DNA makes RNA, which makes proteins, which are what make every living thing you can see, smell, touch, and taste (and a ...

Scientists have long queried how the complex molecules needed for life could have formed around the tumultuous and violent environment of the sun in its youth. A family of meteorites called ...

The origin of life on Earth is still enigmatic, but we are slowly unravelling the steps involved and the necessary ingredients. Scientists believe life arose in a primordial soup of organic chemicals ...

Challenging long-held assumptions, Aarhus University researchers have demonstrated that the protein building blocks essential for life as we know it can form readily in space. This discovery, ...

One of the most important molecules in your cell membranes was just discovered in an unexpected place: a dense cloud of dust and gas far away in space. Astronomers spotted the telltale spectral ...

A graphical representation of glycine on a surface in the interstellar medium bombarded by cosmic rays to produce peptides, the building block of proteins. Challenging long-held assumptions, Aarhus ...