Learn about new evidence that suggests life on Earth may have started with the help of molecules that were delivered by ...

Also found in the Ryugu sample were organic prebiotic molecules that form in presence of liquid water, another vital ingredient for life, like aliphatic amines, carboxylic acids, polycyclic ...

To better understand how that chemistry could create prebiotic molecules, researchers investigated the role of low-energy electrons created as cosmic radiation traverses through ice particles.

Prebiotic molecules contain the chemical elements needed for life. These findings could eventually help scientists in their search for extraterrestrial life.

image: Artistic composition of a “soup” of prebiotic molecules around a protoplanetary disc. view more Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz (IAC) The scientists Susan Iglesias-Groth, of the Instituto ...

An illustration of a comet crashing into an alien star system. (Image credit: NASA Goddard) In recent decades, astronomers have proved that some comets and asteroids contain prebiotic molecules ...

In the Taurus molecular cloud, one of the closest stellar nurseries to Earth, scientists found two nitrile-containing molecules — and this is incredibly interesting because these very molecules ...

Sure enough, on top of structural icy bits such as frozen carbon dioxide, ammonia and water, the JWST managed to detect evidence of what're known as "prebiotic molecules" in the cloud, according ...

It is the precursor of prebiotic molecules such as amino acids and sugars. The molecule is commonly found in star-forming clouds, but astronomers had never discovered it in a planet-forming disc.