The newly detected compounds suggest complex organic chemistry may have occurred in the planet’s past — the kind necessary for the origin of life, according to new research. The organic ...

because the large compounds suggest organic chemistry on Mars achieved higher complexity than what scientists had previously observed. It also confirms that potential evidence of life can survive ...

Chengdu Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610299, China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China ...

A team of scientists just discovered the longest organic molecules yet seen on Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun and and a tantalizing venue for humankind’s search for life beyond Earth.