Collaborative work by amateur and professional astronomers has helped to resolve a long-standing misunderstanding about the composition of Jupiter's clouds. Instead of being formed of ammonia ice -- ...

Southwest Research Institute was part of an international team that demonstrated how complex organic molecules (COMs), key ...

New research suggests that Jupiter’s icy moons may have formed with complex organic molecules already embedded in their building blocks.

“Our findings suggest that Jupiter’s moons did not form as chemically pristine worlds,” Mousis said. “Instead, they may have accreted, or accumulated, a significant inventory of COMs at birth, ...