It was in 'The Magellanic Cloud'(1955)–a science fiction novel by Stanislaw Lem–that
engineers travelling to another star noticed that their spacecraft for unknown reasons …

The chemistry that occurs in interstellar clouds consists of both gas-phase processes and
reactions on the surfaces of dust grains, the latter particularly on and in water-dominated ice …

One of the proposed scenarios for the origin of life is the primordial RNA world, which
considers that RNA molecules were likely responsible for the storage of genetic information …

Context. Many molecules observed in the interstellar medium are thought to result from the
thermal desorption of ices. Parameters such as the desorption energy and pre-exponential …

The surface and subsurface of comets preserve material from the formation of the solar
system. The properties of cometary material thus provide insight into the physical and …

The laboratory work presented here simulates the chemistry on icy dust grains as typical for
the 'CO freeze-out stage'in dark molecular clouds. It differs from previous studies in that solid …

Context. Hydroxylamine (NH 2 OH) and methylamine (CH 3 NH 2) have both been
suggested as precursors to the formation of amino acids and are therefore, of interest to …

Glycine and methylamine are meteoritic water-soluble organic compounds that provide
insights into the processes that occurred before, during, and after the formation of the Solar …

Ever since the discovery of nucleic acids 150 years ago,[1] major achievements have been
made in understanding and decrypting the fascinating scientific questions of the genetic …

Hydroxylamine, NH2OH, is one of the already detected interstellar molecules with the
highest prebiotic potential. Yet, the abundance of this molecule found by astronomical …