▪ Abstract Our understanding of the evolution of organic molecules, and their voyage from
molecular clouds to the early solar system and Earth, has changed dramatically …

Life is generally believed to emerge on Earth, to be at least functionally similar to life as we
know it today, and to be much simpler than modern life. Although minimal life is notoriously …

The diffuse interstellar bands are absorption lines seen towards reddened stars. None of the
molecules responsible for these bands have been conclusively identified. Two bands at …

Dust is a ubiquitous feature of the cosmos, impinging directly or indirectly on most fields of
modern astronomy and astrophysics. Dust in the Galactic Environment, Second Edition …

Recent advances in laboratory spectroscopy lead to the claim of ionized
Buckminsterfullerene (C60+) as the carrier of two diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) in the near …

Abstract Benzonitrile (c-C6H5CN, where 'c'indicates a cyclic structure), a polar proxy for
benzene (c-C6H6), has the potential to serve as a highly convenient radio probe for …

Based on gas-phase laboratory spectra at 6 K, Campbell et al. confirmed that the diffuse
interstellar bands (DIBs) at 9632.7 and 9577.5 Å are due to absorption by the fullerene ion …

Carbonaceous grains represent a major component of cosmic dust. In order to understand
their formation pathways, they have been prepared in the laboratory by gas-phase …

Recent low-temperature laboratory measurements and astronomical observations have
proved that the fullerene cation ${{\rm {C}}} _ {60}^{+} $ is responsible for four diffuse …

Recently, the presence of fullerenes in the interstellar medium (ISM) has been confirmed
and new findings suggest that these fullerenes may possibly form from polycyclic aromatic …