New method reveals chemical signs of early microbial life in ancient Earth rocks, showing photosynthesis evolved much earlier ...

If nonliving materials can produce rich, organized mixtures of organic molecules, then the traditional signs we use to ...

Laboratory experiments performed at the Centre for Astrochemical Studies (CAS) of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Munich, together with astronomical observations ...

Evidence is mounting that the same basic chemistry that made Earth habitable is unfolding, or once unfolded, on Mars. From ...

This image depicts the structure of the proposed organic molecule, alongside the energy level diagrams of two-photon absorption (left side) and thermally activated delayed fluorescence (right side).

Researchers find that Earth’s orbital rhythms influenced sediment and organic preservation in Jurassic shale deposits.