In drug discovery, building complex molecules quickly is the name of the game.

NASA’s Perseverance rover has detected the most complex organic carbon ever identified on Mars, found within ancient ...

An international team of researchers has uncovered what might be a critical step in the chemical evolution of molecules in cosmic “stellar nurseries.” In these vast clouds of cold gas and dust in ...

Researchers have extracted new chemical details from nearly two-decade-old Cassini spacecraft data, identifying complex ...

Enceladus, a 500-kilometer-wide moon of Saturn, has been a top target in the hunt for extraterrestrial life for two decades. In 2005, shortly after arriving in orbit around the ringed planet, the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Ten years ago, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe pulled up alongside a dusty, icy lump the size of a mountain. The probe would ...

Ten years ago, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe pulled up alongside a dusty, icy lump the size of a mountain. The probe would follow its quarry, a comet called 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, for ...

Organic chemistry explores the structure, properties and reactivity of carbon-based molecules. Owing to carbon’s ability to form strong C–C and C–H bonds, these compounds range from small hydrocarbons ...

Metal Complex Chemistry of Low-Valent P-Block Elements encompasses the coordination and reactivity of compounds in which elements of groups 13–15 adopt oxidation states below their classical valences.