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Even though demoted from planetary status, Pluto is still arguably one of the most interesting bodies in the solar system, alongside its four moons. Recently, it became even more interesting, when researchers learned that its surface may contain complex organic molecules – the building blocks of life.
The res... |
22 December 2011
04:51 GMT |
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Scientists at the Rice University demonstrated that a bi-dimensional carbon compound can be outfitted with organic molecules, thus opening up organic chemistry as a new field for graphene applications.
For the past 6 years or so, physicists and chemists have been trying to figure out the extent to which the material... |
30 November 2011
04:24 GMT |
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A new study conducted using the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope observed L1157, a stellar nursery located about 800 light-years away from Earth. The investigation was finally able to determine why the area contains such large amounts of water and ammonia.
A model created by Izaskun Jimenez-Serra, an astronomer at the ... |
9 November 2011
10:53 GMT |
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An international collaboration of astronomers announces the discovery of spectral signatures thought to belong to large organic molecules inside two nearby galaxies, Andromeda and Triangulum. The molecules thought to produce these light signatures comprise of 20 atoms or more. Though they may not seem overly complex,... |
22 August 2011
07:50 GMT |
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A team of experts recently determined that some of the basic building blocks of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the basic building blocks of life, may have originated in meteorites that were produced in space. This finding has tremendous implications for theories on the origins of life here on Earth.The research lends a... |
9 August 2011
07:30 GMT |
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Astronomers using the European Space Agency's (ESA) Herschel Space Observatory announce the discovery of organic molecules that may potentially enable life. The chemicals were discovered in the famous Orion Nebula.The stellar nursery is located within our own galaxy, the Milky Way. According to the research team... |
1 August 2011
10:29 GMT |
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All space exploration missions headed towards the Red Planet for the last 40 years or so have been focused on recreating the route that water took on Mars billions of years ago. Astrobiologists now agree that it's time to shift the focus of this exploration effort to finding signs of past life there.
NASA sa... |
19 January 2011
02:54 GMT |
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In a study that is bound to reignite the decades-old debate about whether life existed on the Red Planet in the distant past, a team of experts proposes that samples collected by the NASA Viking Mars Lander indeed contained organic molecules. Over the years, a number of investigations were conducted on these sample. ... |
7 January 2011
16:01 GMT |
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According to the recent discoveries of a scientific investigation, it would appear that water ice and organic molecules are common place in the solar system, and especially on asteroids making their way among the planets. Astronomers were able to make an impressive breakthrough in this field of research when they wer... |
3 January 2011
06:59 GMT |
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According to a research presented December 4 at the 2010 annual fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), it would appear that the Saturnine moon Titan may have he capability to sustain the formation of biomolecules on its surface. These molecules would resemble the amino-acids, the basic building blocks ... |
15 December 2010
03:03 GMT |
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Most people only think of comets as enders of worlds, but some scientists are making a strong case that the space objects are more likely cosmic arks of life, taking life-precursor molecules through space in all directions. Some of these objects may have done this for our planet as well, say investigators. In additio... |
4 November 2010
07:06 GMT |
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A team of astronomers proposes that Kuiper Belt objects that have a reddish hue may in fact owe their color to the presence of complex organic molecules, that could form the building blocks of life. If this turns out to be true, then the discovery could have significant consequences for the way life developed here on... |
29 October 2010
15:30 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking new study, researchers have discovered the existence of water ice on an asteroid for the second time, hinting at the fact that the stuff is a lot more common on space rocks than thought.Scientists now believe that a large number of asteroids or meteorites may carry at least trace amounts of water ... |
9 October 2010
03:23 GMT |
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New computer models that simulated possible chemical reactions in Titan's atmosphere concluded that the basic organic molecules need to create life may exist on the largest moon of Saturn.The investigation basically states that carbon-based life forms are possible on the space object, which is one of the most in... |
8 October 2010
07:02 GMT |
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Officials with the Nobel Committee announced that the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry will go to jointly researchers who conducted work in creating a method for build complex organic molecules.The technique has numerous applications, ranging from pharmaceutical manufacturing to the electronics industry. The Committee m... |
7 October 2010
04:11 GMT |
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A new antimalarial drug that is more chemically stable in the body that current malaria treatments, has been developed by researchers at the University of Liverpool and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.This research is part of a £1.5 million project and scientists are now looking for a way of getting i... |
17 August 2010
10:05 GMT |
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An international collaboration of astronomers has recently discovered the closest neighbor the Sun has, that it definitely outside of our solar system. The researchers say this is a Jupiter-sized object, most likely a very cool brown dwarf. It was found to be wandering around some 9 light-years away from the Sun, whi... |
6 April 2010
08:50 GMT |
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While looking for evidence of life on other bodies in the solar system, researchers often evaluate the degree of habitability relying on the presence of water, sunlight, oxygen and so on. However, in the last decades, we came to learn that none of these three basic ingredients is absolutely required in order to susta... |
21 April 2008
04:54 GMT |
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Why are we so fascinated with the Moon? I mean just look around you, the universe is more than the Earth and its large satellite. Mars, Venus and Mercury are just around the corner, why are we so reluctant at sending a manned mission to any of these planets? The truth is that space missions are extremely dangerous an... |
4 April 2008
06:05 GMT |
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Primitive organic molecules can be found throughout the whole solar system, but they are mostly present in carbonaceous chondrite meteorites. They can also be found amongst the interplanetary dust particles which formed in the early days of the solar system. However, the materials that have the most scientific value ... |
28 March 2008
10:37 GMT |
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In more than four decades of space study, astronomers have been able to identify more than 140 different molecular substances in interstellar clouds of matter, but also in accretion disks surrounding young stars. Many of these substances fall into the 'bio'-molecule category of molecules and are mostly inte... |
27 March 2008
10:54 GMT |
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We know organic molecules are scattered throughout most of the Milky Way, but it was about the time for the astronomers to find some in distant galaxies. Located at about 250 million light years away in the Serpens constellation, the Arp 220 galaxy is actually the result of the collision between two separate galaxies... |
15 January 2008
03:31 GMT |
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Evidence of the same chemicals that represent the building blocks of life on Earth has been found in nearby galaxies, but to identify the exact identity of these molecules and when they became abundant is no easy task. Scientists think that organic molecules were present in the cloud of gas out of which the solar sys... |
13 November 2007
09:03 GMT |
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