Asteroid Samples Reveal Origins of Organic Molecules in the Early Solar System
December 22, 2023
December 22, 2023
PASADENA, California, Dec. 22 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news:
Carbon is the building block of biological life on Earth. The element is present in many compounds, such as the sugars, proteins, and carbohydrate molecules that make up everything from animals to plants to bacteria.
One particular carbon-based molecule, called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), is both ubiquitous on Earth and abundant in space. Astronomers have obse . . .
Carbon is the building block of biological life on Earth. The element is present in many compounds, such as the sugars, proteins, and carbohydrate molecules that make up everything from animals to plants to bacteria.
One particular carbon-based molecule, called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), is both ubiquitous on Earth and abundant in space. Astronomers have obse . . .