Astronomers, among them Yuxin Lin and his collaborators, have identified methanimine in the L1544 cloud, located 554 light-years away. This molecule, composed of carbon, hydrogen, and ...

What if everything scientists ever thought about the universe’s earliest chemical reactions was wrong? Recent tests have turned decades of theory on its head, showing that the first molecular ...

The formation of stars is intricately linked to the complex structure and dynamics of molecular clouds—vast, cold, and dense regions in the interstellar medium that primarily consist of molecular ...

Laboratory experiments conducted under extreme pressure indicate that hydrogen entered the Earth’s core together with silicon and oxygen during its formation. This indicates that the Earth’s core may ...

Using a scanning tunneling microscope equipped with a femtosecond terahertz laser, scientists have exploited the quantum properties of a two-atom hydrogen molecule to observe changes in the ...