Unlocking the origins of life starts with understanding how simple space molecules turned into complex building blocks. To do ...

Organic chemistry is the study of the structure, properties, composition, reactions, and preparation of carbon-containing compounds. Most organic compounds contain carbon and hydrogen, but they may ...

These compounds were revealed during an experiment ... Curiosity had already detected simple organic molecules in previous missions. This latest study — published in the Proceedings of the ...

The molecules may be remnants of fatty acids, which form cell membranes in Earth’s organisms, though they might have formed through a non-biological process ...