New analyses of Hayabusa2 material show asteroid samples contain genetic building blocks — all five canonical nucleobases — but key gaps remain before we can say space made life.
A Johns Hopkins experiment shows hardy microbes can survive the shock of asteroid ejection and much of the transit to another world, strengthening the lithopanspermia idea and r...
Scientists report ribose and glucose in pristine samples from asteroid Bennu, along with salts, phosphates and amino acids — findings that sharpen theories about how life’s ingr...
Observations with JWST’s MIRI instrument reveal multiple complex organic molecules embedded in ice around a protostar in the Large Magellanic Cloud, marking the first solid-stat...
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