It's a sweet discovery that has the science world talking — and may help us better understand the origins of life on Earth.

Astronomers detected erythrulose, the first true sugar found between stars, offering new clues about prebiotic chemistry and ...

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

Erythrulose—a sugar found in raspberries—is also prevalent in a giant molecular cloud close to our galaxy’s core, scientists ...

A new study found a four-carbon sugar named “erythrulose” in a molecular cloud in the interstellar medium (ISM) roughly ...

A photon enters a cloud of atoms and emerges on the other side. When physicists calculate how long the atoms remained excited ...

For the first time in history, astronomers have detected a sugar molecule floating among the gas clouds of interstellar space ...

An artistic representation of Cassini as it prepares for its final dive. (NASA) If we could hear the cosmos, our lives might be filled with endless unease. We can't, of course. Sound can only ...

"Our work shows that sugars can form naturally in space," says the lead author of this research ...

The discovery was made using two powerful radio telescopes, the 40-meter Yebes telescope and the 30-meter IRAM telescope.

Lisa Nandy stays in post as U.K. culture secretary while MP Kanishka Narayan has been appointed the first minister for ...