The low-albedo asteroid 162173 Ryugu is one of many C-type asteroids 1,2,3 that are thought to be parent bodies of carbonaceous chondrite meteorites that fall to Earth. Ryugu’s current form of a ...

In a review led by Prof. Zhijie Chen's group from Department of Chemistry at Zhejiang University, an overview of recent progress in the development of Zr-MOFs is provided. The article titled "Design, ...

Organic matter in extraterrestrial samples is a complex material that might have played an important role in the delivery of prebiotic molecules to the early Earth. We report here on the ...

Scientists studying a rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover have uncovered something tantalizing: the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars. The compounds — decane, undecane, and ...