Icy organic molecules seen around nascent stars - Space and Astronomy. Organic molecules like these are important ingredients for building the building blocks of life.
Discovery, based on observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, indicates that they could gather in comets or asteroids and lead to the formation of planets capable of hosting life. It is believed that the fall of objects like these to Earth, during the formation phases, may have played a key role in the appearance of life on our planet. The discovery helps answer one of the oldest questions in astrochemistry: what is the origin of complex organic molecules in space?