In research that has all the makings of a blockbuster movie — with interstellar chemistry, million-year timescales, and high-powered lasers — Princeton chemists are expanding our understanding of the ...

The universe is 13.8 billion years old—and like many things that have been around for a while, it’s collected lots of dust. And just one of these dust particles could seed an entire planet. After a ...

Diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) represent one of the longest-standing enigmas in astronomical spectroscopy. These broad absorption features, observed in the optical and near-infrared spectra of ...

In the driest high desert in the world, where flamingos flock to mountain lakes and llamas and wild burros roam the rust-colored hills, scientists have built the world’s largest radio telescope. Its ...

Hidden molecule Tsegaw took the measurements as a guest researcher in the working group of Prof Dr Ralf Kaiser at "WM Keck Research Laboratory in Astrochemistry" in Hawaii. He then analysed the data ...

This episode features a wide-ranging interview with the astrochemist Ewine van Dishoeck, who is professor emeritus of molecular astrophysics at Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands. In 2018 she was ...

Throughout any given year, the National Academies convene hundreds of conferences, workshops, symposia, forums, roundtables, and other gatherings that attract the finest minds in academia and the ...

Combining the cutting-edge capabilities of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) with newly developed laboratory techniques, scientists are opening a completely new era for ...

The Astrophysical Chemistry Group is pleased to invite you to give a talk and/or present a poster at the Annual Meeting of the ApChem Group that will be held in the Lecture Theatre of the GO Jones ...