A common iron mineral hiding in soil turns out to be far better at trapping carbon than scientists realized. Its surface ...

Known non-biological sources, from meteorites to surface chemistry, fall short of accounting for organic compounds detected ...

In a new study, researchers say that nonbiological sources they considered could not fully account for the abundance of ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has detected evidence of organic compounds in a huge 28-mile-wide crater on Mars for the first time. The discovery, which was published in the journal Nature, has ...

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 ...

Elemental analysis offers scientists a method of determining the elements present in an organic compound, and in what quantity. Various fields of science rely on this type of analysis for research, ...

Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) represent a class of organic chemicals that demonstrate a remarkable tendency to vaporize at room temperature, thus facilitating their rapid evaporation into the ...