It was in 'The Magellanic Cloud'(1955)–a science fiction novel by Stanislaw Lem–that
engineers travelling to another star noticed that their spacecraft for unknown reasons …

The chemistry that occurs in interstellar clouds consists of both gas-phase processes and
reactions on the surfaces of dust grains, the latter particularly on and in water-dominated ice …

Dust is a ubiquitous feature of the cosmos, impinging directly or indirectly on most fields of
modern astronomy and astrophysics. Dust in the Galactic Environment, Second Edition …

Low-mass protostars are the extrasolar analogues of the natal Solar system. Sophisticated
physicochemical models are used to simulate the formation of two protoplanetary discs from …

The centers of starburst galaxies may be characterized by a specific gas and ice chemistry
due to their gas dynamics and the presence of various ice desorption mechanisms. This may …

Centaurs are transitional objects between primitive trans-Neptunian objects and Jupiter-
family comets. Their compositions and activities provide fundamental clues regarding the …

Over the last four years we have illustrated the potential of a novel wavelength-dependent
approach in determining molecular processes at work in the photodesorption of interstellar …

We present experimental constraints on the insertion of oxygen atoms into methane to form
methanol in astrophysical ice analogs. In gas-phase and theoretical studies this process has …

Context. Ice is ubiquitous in the interstellar medium. As soon as it becomes slightly opaque
in the visible, it can be seen for visual extinctions (AV) above~ 1.5. The James Webb Space …

Context. Carbon dioxide (CO 2) is one of the dominant components of interstellar ices.
Recent observations show CO 2 exists more abundantly in polar (H 2 O-dominated) ice than …