[HTML][HTML] Origins of building blocks of life: A review

N Kitadai, S Maruyama - Geoscience Frontiers, 2018 - Elsevier
How and where did life on Earth originate? To date, various environments have been
proposed as plausible sites for the origin of life. However, discussions have focused on a …

The search for chiral asymmetry as a potential biosignature in our solar system

DP Glavin, AS Burton, JE Elsila, JC Aponte… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The search for evidence of extraterrestrial life in our Solar System is currently guided by our
understanding of terrestrial biology and its associated biosignatures. The observed …

Identifying the wide diversity of extraterrestrial purine and pyrimidine nucleobases in carbonaceous meteorites

Y Oba, Y Takano, Y Furukawa, T Koga… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
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 …

Macromolecular organic matter in samples of the asteroid (162173) Ryugu

H Yabuta, GD Cody, C Engrand, Y Kebukawa… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Samples of the carbonaceous asteroid (162173) Ryugu were collected and brought to Earth
by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft. We investigated the macromolecular organic matter in Ryugu …

Hayabusa2 Mission Overview

S Watanabe, Y Tsuda, M Yoshikawa, S Tanaka… - Space Science …, 2017 - Springer
The Hayabusa2 mission journeys to C-type near-Earth asteroid (162173) Ryugu (1999 JU
3) to observe and explore the 900 m-sized object, as well as return samples collected from …

The provenances of asteroids, and their contributions to the volatile inventories of the terrestrial planets

CMOD Alexander, R Bowden, ML Fogel, KT Howard… - Science, 2012 - science.org
Determining the source (s) of hydrogen, carbon, and nitrogen accreted by Earth is important
for understanding the origins of water and life and for constraining dynamical processes that …

Understanding prebiotic chemistry through the analysis of extraterrestrial amino acids and nucleobases in meteorites

AS Burton, JC Stern, JE Elsila, DP Glavin… - Chemical Society …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
The discoveries of amino acids of extraterrestrial origin in many meteorites over the last 50
years have revolutionized the Astrobiology field. A variety of non-terrestrial amino acids …

The nature, origin and modification of insoluble organic matter in chondrites, the major source of Earth's C and N

CMOD Alexander, GD Cody, BT De Gregorio, LR Nittler… - Geochemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
All chondrites accreted∼ 3.5 wt.% C in their matrices, the bulk of which was in a
macromolecular solvent and acid insoluble organic material (IOM). Similar material to IOM is …

Localized aliphatic organic material on the surface of Ceres

MC De Sanctis, E Ammannito, HY McSween, A Raponi… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Organic compounds occur in some chondritic meteorites, and their signatures on solar
system bodies have been sought for decades. Spectral signatures of organics have not …

Extraterrestrial amino acids and amines identified in asteroid Ryugu samples returned by the Hayabusa2 mission

ET Parker, HL McLain, DP Glavin, JP Dworkin… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
The hot water and acid extracts of two different Ryugu samples collected by the Hayabusa2
mission were analyzed for the presence of aliphatic amines and amino acids. The …