Because of its potent greenhouse properties, methane gas is a significant contributor to climate change. It also feeds microbes known as methanotrophs that convert the gas into carbon dioxide and ...

Methane is a democratic molecule. You make it, I make it, cows and coal mines and multinational oil companies emit it. When NASA looks for life on other planets, they scan for methane, not little ...

Scientists have inserted metal atoms into methane gas molecules and obtained a detailed structure of the resulting molecule. The discovery could be a key step in making hydrocarbons available to ...

Scientists have detected the presence of an organic molecule in the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet for the first time, NASA announced today. The finding, detailed in the March 20 issue of the ...

Scientistshave detected the presence of an organic molecule in the atmosphere of anextrasolar planet for the first time, NASA announced today. Thefinding, detailed in the March 20 issue of the journal ...

Scientists have unveiled a breakthrough way to turn natural gas—long burned as fuel—into valuable chemical building blocks ...

A team led by Professor Osami Shoji at Nagoya University in Japan has developed a technology to convert methane, the principal component of natural gas, into methanol at room temperature in water.