28 June 2019
NASA drone to search for signs of early life on Titan
... will search for chemical evidence of past or extant life and in doing so could shed light on how far prebiotic chemistry may have progressed from an earlier evolutionary period. Nothing is off the books however and the crafts...
June 2020
Titan’s evolving atmosphere
... to study, among other things, the moon’s prebiotic chemistry and extraterrestrial habitability at various locations. With this ... of chemicals on Titan (that form a path to prebiotic molecules) differ from known abiotic organic material in meteorites ...
March 2016
Searching for water in the Solar System
... their origin(s). This implies the need to stay at least at one of them for extended exploration as some of the chemistry measurements important to planetary science require a long integration time. Hence, other missions under formulation include...
29 August 2016
Dust is the key to producing complex organic molecules in space
... are carbon. They are of great interest to scientists as these types of molecule are expected to play an important role in prebiotic chemistry and are therefore considered the basic ingredients to explain the origin of life. The simplest sugar...
22 December 2017
Where is NASA going next?
... that would take advantage of the environment on Saturn’s moon Titan, to fly to multiple locations and study the prebiotic chemistry and habitability of dozens of sites, some hundreds of miles apart. If Titan was not gravitationally bound to Saturn...
