A team of chemists and astronomers have made a discovery in the field of astrochemistry: the identification of cyanocoronene, the largest polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) ever detected in space.

In the crowded, turbulent heart of the Milky Way, scientists have picked out a fragile pattern of atoms that could help explain how lifeless gas and dust eventually turned into biology. The newly ...

Astronomers have detected complex organic molecules in a galaxy observed when the universe was less than 1.5 billion years ...

The term aromaticity is a basic, long-standing concept in chemistry that is well established for ring-shaped carbon compounds. Aromatic rings consisting solely of metal atoms were, however, heretofore ...

As the saying goes, all good things take time – and this could be said to be especially true of major scientific breakthroughs. After nearly half a century of speculation and decades of attempts by ...

This whopping piece of molecular architecture incorporates 2,712 atoms across 12 identical macrocycles held together by 144 hydrogen bonds (Nature 2025, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08266-3). It’s not the ...

Aromatic modules are characterized by a ring shape and a special bonding situation that allows electrons to move freely around the ring if positioned in a magnetic field. The increased stability ...

Discovery of seven-ring cyanocoronene in a star-forming cloud challenges assumptions about the abundance and formation of complex organic molecules in the universe. (Nanowerk News) A team of chemists ...