Tag: organic molecules
Could This Be the Year’s Most Ridiculous Idea About How Life Originated?
Stories like this always want to tell us how Earth and life are not “special.” It’s an obsession with science writers, and seemingly with the folks at NASA too.
Europa Clipper: The Moon Mission Making Waves
Astrobiologists hope this mission will help answer a couple of big questions in astrobiology.
Is Assembling Life Like Assembling LEGOs?
Unfortunately, Sara Walker provides no clue as to what process does all the “constraining,” “funneling,” and “scaffolding.”
Saturn’s Moon Titan as a Habitability Test
It’s called one of the most earthlike environments in the solar system with an atmosphere and organic molecules. How does it measure up compared to Earth?
The Remarkable Carbon Atom
This is another one of many countless features of our universe that have to be “just right” for life — in particular, advanced life — to exist.