The new discovery suggests that sugar, essential to life on Earth, may have come from space.

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

An astrophotograph of the interstellar comet known as 3I/ATLAS highlights its green coma and a wandering blue-tinted ion tail. (Copyright Victor Sabet and Julien De ...

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

Sugar has been discovered in space and it could change the search for alien life - Erythrulose is found on Earth in ...

A few days ago, an inscrutable interstellar interloper made its closest approach to Mars, where a fleet of international spacecraft seek to unravel the red planet’s ancient mysteries. Several of the ...

“The detection of erythrulose is very exciting because it opens up the possibility of discovering in space other sugars such ...

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 ...