Using electrons to map structures isn’t a new idea. The 2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry went to scientists who used this concept to map proteins with hundreds of thousands of atoms ( SN: 10/28/17, p.

These organic molecules had managed to survive in rock that was about 3.5 billion years old, and that may have lain within a few centimeters of the surface for perhaps 100,000 years, Eigenbrode said.

A recent discovery of organic compounds in billion-year-old ancient rocks in Australia helps illuminate the early history of eukaryotes, according to a new study.

The Curiosity rover detected the largest organic molecules to date on Mars, which may be fragments of fatty acids, or some of the chemical building blocks of life. CNN values your feedback 1.

After analyzing samples collected by the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 from both the Ryugu asteroid and Murchison meteorite, researchers determined that it contained an organic compound known as ...

Novel chemical route to form organic molecules Date: January 13, 2012 Source: University of Hawaii at Manoa Summary: Scientists have discovered a novel chemical route to form polycyclic aromatic ...

Organic molecules found in a Mars meteorite that crash-landed on Earth are not signs of life, but instead formed in chemical reactions between water and rock on the Red Planet about 4 billion ...

The organic molecules were found in areas of the Jezero Crater named Máaz and Séítah, and are of a similar type to those Curiosity found in the Gale Crater, suggesting that both sites — which ...

In 2017, scientists studying data sent home by NASA's Dawn spacecraft initially spotted organic compounds known as aliphatic molecules near a 32-mile-wide impact crater on Ceres.Since then, they ...