... is that they have the same origin as us (i.e., born by the same abiogenesis event), and they (or we) traversed interstellar space on meteorites. The second possibility is that they originate from a different abiogenesis event, and in this case ...
... primarily using the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia as part of the Prebiotic Interstellar Molecular Survey, this puzzle is one step closer to being solved. βIt's the first molecule detected in space that...
...the simplest sugar alcohol, have both been detected in the interstellar medium (ISM); but how did they get there? Did... or were they produced via reactions on the surface of interstellar dust grains? Using the Green Bank Telescope, the IRAM 30m...
...showed that the molecule can be formed at extremely cold interstellar temperatures, down to 15 Kelvin (β258 degrees Celsius), ...under very cold conditions that are similar to those in interstellar space. This implies that this molecule, and thus the ...
... known as IRAS 16293-2422. While the new ALMA observation is the first detection ever of a stable organohalogen in interstellar space, it simultaneously dashes hopes that its presence points to potential signs of life beyond our planet. On Earth...
... of a dark molecular cloud, a giant gaseous interstellar region that will eventually one day become the breeding...need all of the atomic hydrogen that is drifting around in the interstellar medium (the space between the star systems in a galaxy) to...