Astronomers Discover New Building Blocks of Complex Organic Matter

The discovery of a new, complex molecule (1-cyanopyrene) in space challenges expectations about where the building blocks for carbon are found and how they evolve. 

Webb Makes First Detection of Crucial Carbon Molecule

A team of international scientists has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to detect a new carbon compound in space for the first time. It was detected in a young star system known as d203-506, which is located in the Orion Nebula.

Webb telescope detects universe's most distant organic molecules

An international team of astronomers has detected complex organic molecules in the most distant galaxy to date using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.