Researchers discover how closed-shell PAHs cool efficiently in space, impacting models of prebiotic carbon formation.

Astronomers have made an exciting discovery in deep space, identifying a large organic molecule that could be a crucial building block for life. In a recent breakthrough, scientists detected ...

Lightning, with its extreme temperatures, is capable of transforming atmospheric gases into prebiotic compounds. These molecules are essential for the emergence of life, as may have been the case on ...

This may have stemmed from less intense collisions that delivered prebiotic molecules to Earth after the late heavy bombardment subsided. The search for evidence of extraterrestrial life has ...

Additionally, while the researchers were able to detect several important prebiotic molecules, they acknowledge that other products were likely formed but not detected due to instrument limitations.

Chemical evolution refers to the gradual transformation of molecules in prebiotic conditions, a key process in understanding how life may have arisen from non-living matter.

Scientists found molecules containing nitriles in space — the discovery could shed light on the origins of life as we know it.

Studying the formation of "simpler" molecules like glyceric acid helps to bridge the gap between prebiotic chemistry — the chemistry that existed before life or led to it — and modern ...

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.

Scientists are recreating space ice here on Earth to study the formation of prebiotic molecules. They saw that hydrogen peroxide formed after electron bombardment, a new experimental finding that ...

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