These exciting discoveries in astrochemistry—a multidisciplinary field that focuses on the chemical composition of and processes in astrophysical and planetary environments—have potential applications ...

Astrochemistry: How life may have begun in space Date: April 10, 2017 Source: Ruhr-Universitaet-Bochum Summary: What chemical processes in space could have created the building blocks of life is ...

New experiments show complex astrochemistry on thin ice covering dust grains. June 05, 2020. Astronomy Astrophysics. Astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and the University of Jena ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (Webb), the new flagship space mission from NASA, can operate with exquisite sensitivity at infrared wavelengths and with two spectrometers on board covering the 1-28 ...

Observational astrochemistry in the age of ALMA, NOEMA, JWST and beyond! There is much speculation about the chemistry occurring in a range of astronomical environments, but without observations on ...

With the help of chemists, they have created a new scientific discipline, astrochemistry, that seeks to understand the important role that chemistry has to play in our cosmos. Useful links. Further ...

Astrochemistry marks a new thrust for Weichman’s lab, but it dovetails nicely with her group’s existing expertise in developing new tools for spectroscopy that explore what molecules are doing quantum ...

Born in the late 1930s with the development of spectroscopy and radio astronomy, astrochemistry, a field at the intersection of astrophysics and chemistry, is now mature. New means for observing the s ...