Far beyond the warmth of our Sun, hidden beneath a dense orange haze, Saturn’s moon Titan holds secrets that defy imagination ...

The homogeneity found among both is especially confounding to scientists because the left and right-handed versions of all ...

More asteroids could have made life's ingredients Date: January 19, 2011 Source: NASA Summary: A wider range of asteroids were capable of creating the kind of amino acids used by life on Earth ...

An amino acid called glycine has been found in dust collected by the Stardust spacecraft, which flew by Comet Wild 2 in 2004 (Illustration: NASA/JPL) An amino acid has been found on a comet for ...

All life on Earth relies on a standard set of 20 amino acids to build the proteins that carry out life's essential actions. A new study looks at whether life could evolve on Earth or in space with ...

NASA's Stardust probe successfully collected Amino Acids from the comet's tail, confirmed to originate in space.

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) upcoming Exo-Mars rover will also be capable of searching for biotic organics; such as amino acids and fatty acids. And NASA’s Mars 2020 rover will also carry ...

In October, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will collect a sample of asteroid Bennu and return a sealed sample of dirt and rocks back to Earth. Researchers will look for amino acids in that sample too.

Glycine – CH 2 NH 2 COOH – is the simplest of all the 20 amino acids. Yi-Jehng Kuan of the National Taiwan Normal University and co-workers from the NASA Ames Research Center and the Polish Academy of ...

Since life based on right-handed amino acids would presumably work fine, scientists are trying to find out why Earth-based life favored left-handed amino acids. In March 2009, researchers at NASA ...