"We are really trying to understand how far we can go, chemically, toward larger biological molecules and what environments ...

These gases — composed of carbon, hydrogen, and a halogen, like chlorine — are mostly made by bacteria, algae, fungi, and plants. The chemicals are particularly intriguing as a potential sign of life ...

That molecule is produced by phytoplankton ... The new paper from the UC Riverside team posits Webb could detect one ...

The James Webb Space Telescope detects methyl cation (CH3+) in a young star system with a protoplanetary disk that is located in the Orion Nebula. Credit: Space.com | imagery courtesy: ESA/Webb, NASA, ...