A pair of new studies suggest that key steps toward life’s chemistry may begin long before planets exist. Experiments ...
In A Nutshell Ancient frozen chemistry: New analysis of pristine samples from asteroid Bennu suggests its amino acids formed ...
Scientists have shown that the building blocks of proteins can form naturally in deep space. This means the raw ingredients for life may exist long before planets are formed.
NEWPORT NEWS — The experiment sets nucleons ringing, giving scientists insight into the earliest stages of the universe, according to new research. The test in 2018 and 2019 at the U.S. Department of ...
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 ...