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

Explore the latest find from NASA’s Curiosity rover and what it reveals about organic matter beyond our planet.

Citing previous research into the attractiveness of carboxylic acid, a molecule that is part of the skin’s moisturizing layer, the Rockefeller scientists performed a chemical analysis looking ...

The new method enables what had been impossible except in narrow cases: creating a center of chiral asymmetry at a hard-to-reach position called the "gamma" position on a cyclic carboxylic acid ...

Scientists found the longest organic molecules ever on Mars — ancient carbon chains that resemble the building blocks of life ...