The Hayabusa2 spacecraft collected samples from the surface of the carbonaceous near-
Earth asteroid (162173) Ryugu and brought them to Earth. The samples were expected to …

There are three groups of scientists dominating the search for the origin of life: the organic
chemists (the Soup), the molecular biologists (RNA world), and the inorganic chemists …

The lack of pyrimidine diversity in meteorites remains a mystery since prebiotic chemical
models and laboratory experiments have predicted that these compounds can also be …

The pristine sample from the near-Earth carbonaceous asteroid (162173) Ryugu collected
by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft enabled us to analyze the pristine extraterrestrial material …

The search for life in Solar System bodies such as Mars and Ocean Worlds (eg, Europa and
Enceladus) is an ongoing and high-priority endeavor in space science, even∼ five decades …

Nitrogen, because of its abundance and variety of carrier phases, is a unique tracer of
physico-chemical processes occurring throughout star and planet formations. The refractory …

Hexamethylenetetramine (HMTA) is one of the most versatile and most utilized nitrogen-
containing heterocyclic compounds in academia and industry. Most of the reactions …

An interdisciplinary review of the chemical literature that points to a unifying scenario for the
origin of life, referred to as the Primordial Multifunctional organic Entity (PriME) scenario, is …

Sulfur comprises various compound forms in natural environments and could have played
important roles in chemical evolution in the universe. Various soluble organosulfur …

Carbonaceous meteorites are fragments of asteroids rich in organic material. In the forming
solar nebula, parent bodies may have accreted organic materials resulting from the …