Jupiters moons may have formed with the ingredients for life

Jupiters icy moons may have been seeded with the chemical ingredients for life from the very beginning. An international team of scientists modeled how complex organic molecules-essential building blocks for biology-could have formed in the swirling disk of gas and dust around the young Sun and later been carried into Jupiters own moon-forming disk. Their results suggest that up to half of the icy material that built moons like Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto may have delivered freshly made organ...