INVERSE | The ingredients for alien life were found in a planet system still forming

The star HD 100546 and its dust disk on the left, with a budding protoplanet on the right. (Credit: ESO/NASA/ESA/Ardila et al.)

INVERSE

MAY 2021

Complex organic molecules can survive in a warm planet-forming disk — promising news in the quest to understand where in the universe life could potentially arise.