All around the Universe, clouds of gas and dust swirl between stars, hiding tiny, reactive molecules that could hold answers ...

An international team of scientists led by astronomers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison has produced the most ...

That’s changed, thanks to the work of engineers at Northwestern University. Using a new method to analyze gas molecules, they were able to observe water forming at the smallest scale ever recorded.

What do molecules look like? – Justice B., age 6, Wimberley, Texas A molecule is a group of atoms bonded together. Molecules make up nearly everything around you – your skin, your chair, even your ...

Scientists experimentally confirmed in 2020 that methane, among the simplest organic molecules, forms like this, as carbon and hydrogen land on the icy grains, one after another. Methanol is ...

We know what those molecules look like: Space rocks, ... Radio telescopes such as this one can detect the signal of water molecules in the gas phase.

Searching for life's building blocks light-years away is an important task of the James Webb Space Telescope. But how does it know what to look for? Ph.D. student Marina Gomes Rachid is offering a ...

As astronomers study an exoplanet called K2-18b, conflicting research reveals how difficult it is to find evidence of life beyond Earth.

(CNN) — A tiny sign revealed in April seemed like it might change the universe as we know it. Astronomers had detected just a hint, a glimmer of two molecules swirling in the atmosphere of a ...

Everywhere we look, space seems to teem with biology’s raw materials. Saturn’s moon Titan has lakes of liquid methane and ethane that are made of organic molecules, as are its hydrocarbon sand dunes.

Each of our 100 molecules look alike, but they come from dozens of completely different sources, from Earth’s most ancient life forms, to our food, energy, and waste.

What do molecules look like? – Justice B., age 6, Wimberley, Texas A molecule is a group of atoms bonded together. Molecules make up nearly everything around you – your skin, your chair, even your ...