A Chinese research team has reported the discovery of abiotic organic compounds in the oceanic crust of the Southwest Indian Ridge and proposed a molecular mechanism for organic condensation.

Such simple organic compounds as acetic acid and glycine (an amino acid) are formed in the laboratory when ultraviolet light or electric sparks pass through such mixtures. Presumably, solar ...

Thanks to JWST, we've learned key details about methanol — a key building block for organic compounds necessary for life — on distant icy worlds.

In a reducing Martian atmosphere, CO transforms into simple organic compounds such as formaldehyde and carboxylic acids. During the early Martian era, with surface temperatures close to the ...

Carbon is the simple building block that organisms need to form organic compounds such as proteins, carbohydrates and fats. Carbon's molecular structure allows its atoms to form long chains, with each ...

Canola seedlings can take up acetate, a simple organic carbon compound that researchers have made from carbon dioxide and water using solar electricity. But so far only algae, edible yeast ...