"Complex chemical reactions" discovered in fresh ice grains from Saturn’s moon Enceladus renews hopes that it may harbor life ...

From capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or sucking water out of dry desert air, the trio's new form of molecular ...

Enceladus has long been considered a prime candidate in the search for life beyond Earth because of its hidden ocean and ...

Once thought of as just an icy satellite, Enceladus -- one of Saturn's 274 moons -- may be one of the few places in the solar system able to support life.

2016: Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry ...

A research team led by Prof. Chu Yannan at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has uncovered a new way to detect cancer early—by analyzing the invisible chemical ...

Cassini data show Enceladus ejects ice from its ocean containing intermediates of biologically relevant organics, first found ...

APF-80, enables the crystalline sponge method to capture and analyze nucleophilic compounds. Alkaloids, a diverse group of ...

The solvent dichloromethane, or DCM, is commonly used to strip paint and cut grease. It's also what generations of chemistry ...

Dwarf planet Ceres is depicted in these enhanced-color renderings, which utilize images from NASA’s Dawn mission. New thermal and chemical models that rely on the mission’s data indicate Ceres may ...

We found that the female flowers do most of the work attracting pollinators, as previous studies noted. They emit vast ...