Astronomers have detected a natural sugar found in raspberries in clouds of interstellar dust and gas near the center of the ...

2025 was an exciting year for astronomical discoveries. Scientists got the best evidence yet for past life on Mars, discovered an interstellar comet zooming through our solar system, found clues of ...

Since humanity first gazed up at the night sky, we’ve been driven by an insatiable curiosity to understand what lies beyond our pale blue dot. The past six decades of space exploration have delivered ...

A recent study has brought attention to an uncommon discovery in interstellar space: sugar. Experts from Nature Astronomy ...

Since NASA’s inception in 1958, astronauts have landed on the moon, parked a robot-controlled rover on Mars, and discovered thousands of exoplanets—planets that orbit stars outside of this solar ...

Astronomers have discovered the first true sugar molecule, erythrulose, in interstellar space near the centre of the Milky ...

The most recent decadal survey in Astronomy and Astrophysics (released in late 2021) identified the most compelling science goals, presented a program of ground- and space-based activities for future ...