Hydrogen cyanide, a toxic chemical, may have helped spark the chemistry that led to life. When frozen, it forms crystals with ...
Frozen crystals of hydrogen cyanide, a poisonous substance, may have been essential to life on Saturn’s moon Titan, ...
A substance poisonous to humans—hydrogen cyanide—may have helped create the seeds of life on Earth. At cold temperatures, ...
Could Saturn’s icy moon, Enceladus, hold the ingredients for life as we know it? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of researchers from Harvard ...
Cyanide is a highly lethal chemical that has been used in warfare and poisonings for centuries—that was the general consensus on the naturally occurring chemical up until spring 2025. But in a global ...
Hubble captured this image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on July 21, 2025. The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS made its closest approach to Earth recently on December 19, and apparently caused no ...