A new type of all-carbon molecule has been studied under normal room-temperature conditions. This is only the second time this has ever been done, after spherical buckyballs were synthesised 35 years ...

All life on Earth is based on the element carbon, but scientists aren’t sure what initially supplied all that carbon to our Solar System. A new study using the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia ...

A team of international scientists has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to detect a new carbon compound in space for the first time. Known as methyl cation (pronounced cat-eye-on) (CH3+), the ...

Researchers at MIT have created an unusual oxygen-rich molecule that scientists have tried to ...

Silicon carbide dust is forged in the atmospheres of dying, carbon-rich stars and later scattered across the cosmos. But exactly how these grains form has long remained a mystery.

This month we feature chemicals that have important applications in industry and the lab.—Ed. Carbon monoxide (CO) is the simplest carbon oxide, an important industrial and laboratory chemical, and a ...

A team led by researchers at MIT in the United States has discovered large molecules containing carbon in a distant interstellar cloud of gas and dust. This is exciting for those of us who keep lists ...

Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most abundant and perhaps the most important to human life. Everywhere you look, ...