Scientists have identified 4-billion-year-old nitrogen-containing organic molecules in a Martian meteorite, a discovery that may shed light on whether or not the Red Planet once hosted life. According ...

Previously undetected organic compounds have been found in ice ejected into space from Enceladus, making the satellite a ...

Earlier this week, NASA revealed that researchers have detected more organic compounds in the plumes of water jetting from the surface of Enceladus, the icy moon orbiting the planet Saturn. The new ...

The space rock landed on a frozen lake on Jan. 16, 2018. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A meteorite that landed on a frozen lake ...

A research team led by Prof. Chu Yannan at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has uncovered a new way to detect cancer early—by analyzing the invisible chemical ...

Plants and herbs containing phthalide molecules—organic compounds that fuse aromatic benzene rings with cyclic, oxygen-bearing hydrocarbons known as lactones—have been used since ancient times as ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The haze shrouding Pluto might be made up of ice crystals possessing cyanide hearts, a new study ...

A 12-million-year-old meteorite that fell to Earth in January 2018 is covered in more than 2,600 organic compounds, according to new research. Meteorites such as this one likely acted as messengers ...

VOCs, or volatile organic compounds, are compounds that contain carbon atoms and that, at room temperature, easily evaporate. Too small to see and virtually omnipresent both indoors and out, they can ...

Organic compounds have been found in the plumes rising from the subsurface ocean on Enceladus, adding to the evidence that one of Saturn’s most intriguing moons should be explored further. In 2017, ...