Complex organic molecules (COM) are those that contain six or more atoms, one or more of which must be carbon. Amino acids ...

Complex organic molecules found floating around a distant protostar could mean that space is far richer in life's precursors than scientists assumed.

WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, according to research that provides some of the ...

PXHERE Reactions in tiny droplets of water may have given rise to some of the molecules essential for the origin of life. These reactions, which require a lot of energy in large vats of liquids, are ...

Radioactive meteorites may have helped create the building blocks of life a few million years after the solar system was formed. Amino acids are molecules that combine to form proteins, making ...