Ancient fossils are revealing unexpected chemical survivors, challenging long-held assumptions about how biological carbon is ...
A pair of new studies suggest that key steps toward life’s chemistry may begin long before planets exist. Experiments ...
Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an ...
The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has sparked intrigue in the scientific community after NASA's SPHEREx spacecraft detected ...
"We found an unexpected chemical complexity, with abundances far higher than predicted by current theoretical models." ...
Proteins are the building blocks of life. These biomolecules comprise chains of amino acids that fold into precise shapes to perform specific jobs in nature. But these elegant structures form only ...
For the first time, scientists have developed artificial nucleotides, the building blocks of DNA, with several additional properties in the laboratory. The DNA carries the genetic information of all ...
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 ...