Researchers from University of Copenhagen have investigated what happened to a specific kind of plasma—the first matter ever to be present—during the first microsecond of Big Bang. Their findings provide a piece of the puzzle to the evolution of the universe, as we know it today.
And the organics contain nitrogen, another ingredient necessary for life as we know it.
Rutgers researchers retraced the evolution of enzymes over billions of years
An international team of researchers from the United States, Taiwan and France provides new evidence that phosphates — a key element in the building blocks — were generated in outer space and delivered to Earth in its first one billion years by meteorites or comets. The findings are published in the journal Nature Communications.
Two landmark discoveries reveal organic carbon on the red planet, shaping the future hunt for life on Mars.
a UCLA-led team of scientists reports that it has discovered the existence of a white dwarf star whose atmosphere is rich in carbon and nitrogen, as well as in oxygen and hydrogen, the components of water.
Life exists in a myriad of wondrous forms, but if you break any organism down to its most basic parts, it’s all the same stuff: carbon atoms connected to hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and other elements. But how these fundamental substances are created in space has been a longstanding mystery.
