The interstellar medium is characterized by a rich and diverse chemistry. Many of its
complex organic molecules are proposed to form through radical chemistry in icy grain …

Despite the generally hostile nature of the environments involved, chemistry does occur in
space. Molecules are seen in environments that span a wide range of physical and chemical …

We investigated the application of the LTQ-Orbitrap mass spectrometer (LTQ-Velos Pro,
Thermo Fisher) for resolving complex mixtures of natural aquatic dissolved organic matter …

The presence of solid carbonaceous matter in cometary dust was established by the
detection of elements such as carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen in particles from …

Evolved interstellar ices observed in dense protostellar molecular clouds may arguably be
considered as part of precometary materials that will later fall on primitive telluric planets …

The discovery of meteoritic amino acids with enantiomeric excesses of the l-form (ee L) has
suggested that extraterrestrial organic materials may have contributed to prebiotic chemistry …

Scientists use the Earth as a tool for astrobiology by analyzing planetary field analogues (ie
terrestrial samples and field sites that resemble planetary bodies in our Solar System). In …

Unravelling the origin of organic compounds that were accreted into asteroids requires
better constraining the impact of asteroidal hydrothermal alteration on their isotopic …

Carbonaceous chondrites (CC) contain a diversity of organic compounds. No definitive
evidence for a genetic relationship between these complex organic molecules and the …

The emergence of life on Earth could have benefitted from an extraterrestrial source of
amino acids. Yet, the origin of these amino acids is still debated because they may have …