An artist’s impression of 3I/ATLAS is shown as it passes near the Sun, illuminating one side of the comet. On the side of the ...

The comet, which has a diameter of around 2.6 km, is probably the oldest-known object to venture through the solar system.

An interstellar comet that blazed past the Sun last year could be nearly three times older than our Solar System and is unlike anything ever before seen in our cosmic backyard, astronomers said Monday ...

Mimicking the chemistry of outer space to explain how planets form The laws of chemistry get pushed to the limits in Jenny Bergner’s astrochemistry lab at the University of California, Berkeley, where ...

Astronomers have detected the first true sugar molecule in the space between stars — a four-carbon compound called erythrulose — and its presence narrows one of origin-of-life research's most ...

Astronomers can use telescopes to find specific molecules in the atmospheres of neighboring planets, in nebulae – clouds of interstellar dust and gas – hundreds or thousands of light-years away, or in ...

The universe is 13.8 billion years old—and like many things that have been around for a while, it’s collected lots of dust. And just one of these dust particles could seed an entire planet. After a ...

This episode features a wide-ranging interview with the astrochemist Ewine van Dishoeck, who is professor emeritus of molecular astrophysics at Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands. In 2018 she was ...

Discovery of seven-ring cyanocoronene in a star-forming cloud challenges assumptions about the abundance and formation of complex organic molecules in the universe. (Nanowerk News) A team of chemists ...

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