From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to come thick and fast. But when we've found it, how will we know for sure?

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Anchar Lake stretched across 19 square kilometres for centuries. Fishing families, nadru cultivators, and vegetable farmers ...

Which Gas is known as Marsh Gas? Learn that methane is marsh gas, how it is formed in wetlands, its properties, uses as ...

It's been known for nearly a century that swarms of single-celled organisms thrive by consuming chemicals from their ...

The James Webb space telescope has found a weird planet that is shaped like a lemon. This planet is 2,000 light-years away ...

MIT scientists have achieved the first-ever lab synthesis of verticillin A, a complex fungal compound discovered in 1970. Its delicate structure stalled chemists for decades, despite differing from ...

In 2001, chemists K. Barry Sharpless, Hartmuth C. Kolb, and M. G. Finn introduced click chemistry, a concept in which organic ...

Astronomers are scratching their heads at the odd chemistry, which hints at soot clouds and possibly diamond formation deep ...