{"id":170297,"date":"2023-08-23T17:30:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T22:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/scientists-find-origin-of-life-molecule-in-space-for-first-time"},"modified":"2023-08-23T17:30:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T22:30:10","slug":"scientists-find-origin-of-life-molecule-in-space-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/scientists-find-origin-of-life-molecule-in-space-for-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Scientists find origin-of-life molecule in space for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-find-origin-of-life-molecule-in-space-for-first-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A molecule common to Earth and usually associated with life has been detected in the depths of space by scientists.<\/p>\n<p>Carbonic acid (HOCOOH), which you may know as the chemical that makes your soda fizzy, was discovered lurking near the center of our galaxy in a galactic center molecular cloud named G+0.693\u20130.027, a study published in <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.3847\/1538-4357\/ace523\" class=\"\"><em>The Astrophysical Journal<\/em> revealed.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This marks the third time that carboxylic acids\u2014this class of chemicals, often thought to be some of the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/exoplanet-volcanoes-jupiter-io-nasa-space-1801237\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Exoplanet Found Outside Our Solar System Could Be Covered in Volcanoes\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\"> building blocks of life <\/a>\u2014have been detected in space, after acetic acid and formic, and the first time that an interstellar molecule has been found to contain three or more oxygen atoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A molecule common to Earth and usually associated with life has been detected in the depths of space by scientists. Carbonic acid (HOCOOH), which you may know as the chemical that makes your soda fizzy, was discovered lurking near the center of our galaxy in a galactic center molecular cloud named G+0.693\u20130.027, a study published [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}