A new step towards the origin of life: Clays and the Moon, key to RNA formation
A recent study led by the Centro de Astrobiología (CAB), CSIC-INTA, proposes a new approach to the origin and replication of ribonucleic acid (RNA) on the early Earth, through the lens of complexity theory. The researchers have developed a theoretical and computational model called EarlyWorld that sheds light on one of science’s greatest enigmas: the […]
Succesfully the tested the new module of the SOLID-LDChip life detection system
The Centro de Astrobiologia (CAB), INTA-CSIC, is successfully testing the reception and dosing module of the SOLID-LDChip life detection system in a campaign at Haughton Crater, Canadian Arctic, in collaboration with NASA’s Ames Research Center. Link to press release text
Death of a galaxy seen in 3D by JWST
In a recent study led by the Center for Astrobiology (CAB), CSIC-INTA (Spain), and the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), published in Nature Astronomy, a group of researchers used the NIRSpec instrument onboard JWST to understand how galaxies cease their star formation activity in the early Universe, how they “die” and become quiescent. They […]
Centro de Astrobiología (CAB) obtains new Consolidator Grant project from the European Research Council (ERC) to search molecules relevant to the origin of life in space
