Paleontologists have long assumed that fossilization destroys all organic molecules in ancient remains. However, a groundbreaking study by researchers at the University of Liverpool has found ...

The molecules may be remnants of fatty acids, which form cell membranes in Earth’s organisms, though they might have formed through a non-biological process ...

The Mars Curiosity rover’s onboard mini-lab has helped confirm the existence of the largest organic molecules ever found on the Red Planet. The trio of long-chain compounds preserved in Martian soil ...

Organic compounds are all around us. Many modern materials are at least partially composed of organic compounds. They’re central to economic growth, and are foundational to the fields of biochemistry, ...

Scientists have announced the discovery of the largest organic molecules ever found on Mars ... Yellowknife Bay region of Mars' Gale crater, all the way back in 2013. Curiosity landed in the ...

all with the intention of returning them to Earth in the 2030s via a complicated symphony of missions called Mars Sample Return. Both rovers have detected a variety of organic carbon molecules in ...

Clusteroluminescence from non-conjugated and nonemissive molecules is an area of increasing ... continuous and vertically penetrating covalent organic framework channels, which exhibit high ...

“scientists had not definitively detected indigenous organic carbon at all on the surface of Mars. Since that time, we have continued to discover more diversity of molecules, including this ...