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 ...

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

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

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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 ...