For decades, scientists have searched the depths of space for clues to one of humanity’s biggest mysteries: how life began. Now, a surprising discovery between distant stars is adding a compelling ...

NASA / Grover Swartzlander. Solar sails may encounter drag from light itself as they approach a significant fraction of the ...

According to a team led by cosmochemist Izaskun Jiménez-Serra of the Spanish Astrobiology Center, the discovery could help ...

A sugar found in raspberries and sunless tanning products has turned up near the Milky Way’s center. The discovery marks the ...

The sugar, called erythrulose, lurks in what's called the interstellar medium: thin clouds of gas and dust littered between stars.

Astronomers detected a type of sugar in space that’s also found in raspberries. The sugar, called erythrulose, was found in ...

An international team led by CAB researcher Izaskun Jiménez-Serra has now identified the first sugar in interstellar space: erythrulose. This molecule is the only possible four-carbon ketose, and on ...

Astronomers have long suspected that sugar exists in deep space—frontiers beyond our solar system. That hypothesis was proven ...

It’s the first time a sugar molecule has been detected in interstellar space. The discovery provides tantalizing new clues ...