When we did that, we found that putting a little nitrogen in these molecules explained the troubling molecules. This discovery takes this reservoir of molecules that we didn’t think were interesting and transforms all this...

There once was a time that the assumption was that the origin of life, everything from building simple compounds up to complex life, had to happen here on Earth. We’ve discovered that some very biologically...

This stuff contains the building blocks of life, and now we can say they’re abundant in space. And wherever there’s a planet out there, we know that these things are going to be raining down...

There were a few anomalies in the spectrum that we couldn’t explain.

This tells us that these things that we see out in space can survive interstellar space and successfully be delivered to the surface of a planet.

This isn’t proof that they were used, but a likely suggestion. They were present in abundance at the dawn of time and could have been useful in creating the first life form.