Yong Chen, Karl Lark-Horovitz Professor of physics and astronomy and professor of electrical and computer engineering, director of the Purdue Quantum Science and Engineering Institute, and director of ...

All the essential ingredients to make the DNA and RNA underpinning life on Earth have been discovered in samples collected from the asteroid Ryugu, scientists said Monday.

A pair of new studies suggest that key steps toward life’s chemistry may begin long before planets exist. Experiments simulating interstellar space show that simple amino acids can link into peptides, ...