Planets form and obtain their compositions in disks of gas and dust around young stars. The
chemical compositions of these planet-forming disks regulate all aspects of planetary …

Star-forming regions show a rich and varied chemistry, including the presence of complex
organic molecules—in both the cold gas distributed on large scales and the hot regions …

The evolution of star-forming regions and their thermal balance are strongly influenced by
their chemical composition, which, in turn, is determined by the physicochemical processes …

Life on Earth relies on chiral molecules—that is, species not superimposable on their mirror
images. This manifests itself in the selection of a single molecular handedness, or …

Context. One of the important questions of astrochemistry is how complex organic
molecules, including potential prebiotic species, are formed in the envelopes around …

The high abundances of Complex Organic Molecules (COMs) with respect to methanol, the
most abundant COM, detected toward low-mass protostars, tend to be underpredicted by …

Context. Complex organic molecules (COMs) are thought to form on icy dust grains in the
earliest phase of star formation. The evolution of these COMs from the youngest Class 0/I …

We present a systematic search for wide-separation (with Einstein radius θ E≳ 1.5 ″),
galaxy-scale strong lenses in the 30 000 deg 2 of the Pan-STARRS 3π survey on the …

Context. Over the past five decades, radio astronomy has shown that molecular complexity
is a natural outcome of interstellar chemistry, in particular in star forming regions. However …

Methyl isocyanate (CH3NCO) belongs to a select group of interstellar molecules considered
to be relevant precursors in the formation of larger organic compounds, including those with …