All life on Earth is based on the element carbon, but scientists aren’t sure what initially supplied all that carbon to our ...

Scientists have identified one of the largest carbon-based molecules in space yet. It could help us decode the origins of ...

The mysteries of the cosmos continue to unravel, with scientists piecing together clues about the origins of our solar system ...

A team led by researchers at MIT in the United States has discovered large molecules containing carbon in a distant ...

Complex carbon-based molecules crucial to life on Earth originated somewhere in space, but we didn't know where. Now, huge amounts of them have been spotted in a huge, cold cloud of gas ...

Researchers detected pyrene, a type of large carbon-containing molecule known as a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH), in ...

This discovery supports the idea that life's building blocks were present early in the Solar System's formation and could ...

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A team led by researchers at MIT has discovered that a distant interstellar cloud contains an abundance of pyrene, a type of ...

Scientists found 1-cyanopyrene, the largest polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon detected by radio astronomy to date ...

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The molecule, called pyrene, is made up of four fused planar rings of carbon. It's therefore categorized as a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) — one of the most abundant complex molecules ...