Glycine-the simplest amino acid-has remained undetected in the interstellar medium despite decades of sensitive searches, motivating alternative approaches to constrain its astrochemical origin.
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Identification Of The Simplest Sugar-like Molecule Glycolaldehyde Towards The Hot Molecular Core G358.93-0.03 MM1
Glycolaldehyde (CH2OHCHO) is the simplest monosaccharide sugar in the interstellar medium, and it is directly involved in the origin of life via the ‘RNA world’ hypothesis.