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 ...

Figure 1: Growth rates as a function of sulfuric acid and highly oxygenated molecule (HOM) concentrations. We further consider two very different experiments. During the first experiment, the HOM ...

Analysis of a space rock that landed on a frozen Michigan lake revealed a rich array of extraterrestrial organic compounds.

The compounds of carbon are known as Organic Compounds. Also, apart from carbon, most of the organic compounds contain hydrogen, oxygen or other elements. Like methane, ethanol, ethane, ethene, ethyne ...