Scientists have shown that the building blocks of proteins can form naturally in deep space. This means the raw ingredients ...

It is well known that phosphorus is essential to life’s existence. For this reason, there has been a continued interest in ...

Chinese researchers have braved the cold and harsh environment of Antarctica in order to get a unique view of star formation ...

The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows. The complex precursors to biological molecules can form spontaneously in interstellar space, according ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international team of astronomers has mapped a magnetic ...

As part of the Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics (Astro2020), the Panel on the Interstellar Medium and Star and Planet Formation will identify and articulate the scientific themes that will ...

Astronomers found an interstellar "tunnel" - a cosmic channel that connects our solar system to distant stars, according to a ...

The other two known interstellar comets did not offer such an opportunity.

Scientists have found new evidence suggesting that interstellar 3I/ATLAS is not an alien spaceship, as one conspiracy theory claims, but a comet.

Recent observations of our corner of the universe suggest we have been living inside a hot, less dense region, and that there may even be a strange “cosmic interstellar channel,” or tunnel, connecting ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has published a provocative essay posing a question that sounds ripped from science fiction: ...