If you want to build a habitable planet, ices are a vital ingredient because they are the main source of several key elements — namely carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and […]
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Can Pre-supernova Winds From Massive Stars Enrich The Interstellar Medium With Nitrogen At High Redshift?
Understanding the nucleosynthetic origin of nitrogen and the evolution of the N/O ratio in the interstellar medium is crucial for a comprehensive picture of galaxy chemical evolution at high-redshift because […]
Posted inAstronomy & Telescopes, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Interstellar, Status Report
Biosignature Line Ratios Of [P II] In Exoplanetary And Nebular Environments
Being the backbone element of DNA, phosphorus is a key component in the search for life in the Universe.
Posted inAstrochemistry, Biochemistry & Organic Chemistry, Genomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics, Interstellar, Status Report
A Sequential Acid-base (SAB) Mechanism In The Interstellar Medium: The Emergence Of Cis Formic Acid In Dark Molecular Clouds
The abundance ratios between isomers of a COM observed in the ISM provides valuable information about the chemistry and physics of the gas and eventually, the history of molecular clouds.
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A Search For Mid-IR Bands Of Amino Acids In The Perseus Molecular Cloud
Amino acids are building-blocks of proteins, basic constituents of all organisms and essential to life on Earth.
Posted inInterstellar, Missions & Hardware, Nanotechnology & SynBio, Panspermia, Press Release
Nanotech Away Missions: Picogram-scale Probes To Explore Nearby Stars
In a forward-looking article, George Church, PhD, from Harvard University and the Wyss Institute, proposes the use of picogram to nanogram-scale probes that can land, replicate, and produce a communications […]
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Building Blocks To DNA And RNA In Deep Space Conditions Produced In A Laboratory
The synthetic production of a critical building block called methanediamine for the first time by researchers in University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Department of Chemistry could lead to key insights […]
Posted inAstrochemistry, Biochemistry & Organic Chemistry, Interstellar, Meteorites & Asteroids, Origin & Evolution of Life, Panspermia, Press Release
Meteorites Plus Gamma Rays Could Have Given Earth The Building Blocks For Life
Even as detailed images of distant galaxies from the James Webb Space Telescope show us more of the greater universe, scientists still disagree about how life began here on Earth.
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Rotational Spectra of Interstellar N- and CN-PAHs: Pyrene and Coronene
The detection of benzonitrile (C6H5CN), 1- and 2-cyano-naphthalene (C10H7CN) in the cold, dark molecular cloud TMC-1 at centimetre (cm) wavelengths has opened up prospects for the detection of other N- […]
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Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons with an Imperfect Aromatic System as Catalysts of Interstellar H2 Formation
Although H2 is the simplest and the most abundant molecule in the Universe, its formation in the interstellar medium, especially in the photodissociation regions is far from being fully understood.