Astronomers have detected a variety of complex organic molecules (COMs) in the protoplanetary disk surrounding a young star, ...

Complex organic molecules found floating around a distant protostar could mean that space is far richer in life's precursors ...

Tentative detections of life-linked molecules in a star’s disk suggest planets may form with the ingredients for life already ...

The key ingredients for life may be scattered across the universe in more places than first thought, according to a new study ...

A NASA spacecraft brought samples from the asteroid Bennu back to Earth in 2023. The first in-depth analyses of that material have revealed organic molecules, including building blocks of life.

WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, according to research that provides some of the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed surface ice methanol — a key building block for organic compounds necessary for life, including sugars — on trans-Neptunian objects.

Key building block for life discovered in planet-forming disk by Peter Edmonds, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes ...