The idea traces its roots back to 1953, when Stanley Miller and Harold Urey conducted a groundbreaking experiment. They recreated early Earth’s atmosphere—using ammonia, methane, hydrogen ...

In the early 1950s, the Miller-Urey experiment showed that an electrical current could produce organic compounds from a best-guess reconstruction of the chemistry in Earth’s earliest oceans ...

In 1953, two chemists at the University of Chicago, Stanley Miller and Harold C. Urey, devised an experiment during which water and the Earth’s early inorganic gases (ammonia, methane ...

In the early 1950s, the Miller-Urey experiment showed that an electrical current could produce organic compounds from a best-guess reconstruction of the chemistry in Earth’s earliest oceans ...

Astrobiology has its origins in efforts to explain how life began on our own planet. In the early 1950s, the Miller-Urey experiment showed that an electrical current could produce organic compounds ...