Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most abundant and perhaps the most important to human life. Everywhere you look ...

Carbon, which is found in the human body, takes an unusual journey after the demise of the the stars that create the element.

You're listening to Chemistry in its element brought to you by Chemistry World, the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Any chemist could talk for days about carbon. It is after all an ...

An element’s chemical symbol is a single capital letter or a capital letter followed by a lower case letter. What is carbon? Find out about the structure and properties of the element carbon.

Carbon, a chemical element, is found in all organic matter on Earth, from the plants and animals alive today to fossil fuels buried underground. It’s a key building block in the foods we eat, ...

and they are forms of the element carbon. Gold is an example of a metal element that can also be found in rocks. The air we breathe is mostly made from nitrogen and oxygen, both of which are elements.

NASA/ESA All carbon in the universe forms in the fiery cores of stars, but the element that makes up 18% of our bodies may have taken a detour through the outer edges of our galaxy—and perhaps ...

Nearly all elements except hydrogen and helium—including carbon, oxygen and iron—only exist because they were forged in stellar furnaces and later flung into the cosmos when their stars died.

Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team Carbon, the building block of life on Earth, owes its existence to the fiery crucibles of stars. Alongside elements like oxygen and iron, carbon is forged in the ...