For only the third time in history, humanity is tracking a visitor from beyond the solar system, and one of the best views of ...

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

Astronomers have built the first three-dimensional map of gas temperature in the space surrounding our solar system, ...

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

It's the first time a sugar has been identified in interstellar media, having previously been found in our solar system on asteroids.

The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped some spooky looking photos of our solar system's newest interstellar invader on the run. The object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, was first spotted careening through the ...

Many people imagine the space between the stars as an empty, cold infinity. In reality, it is teeming with extraordinary molecules: More than 300 different types have already been discovered. For her ...

Sugars are crucial components of RNA and DNA, the basis of all known organisms alive today. In a new study, the sugar ...

Scientists were searching for a simpler sugar when radio telescopes instead revealed the first true sugar ever confirmed in interstellar space. Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly ...

The probe is set to become the third human-made object to leave the solar system, but it must first cross this mysterious boundary.