There is a large diversity in the chemical composition of astronomical objects such as planets, comets, circumstellar ...

Prebiotic molecules central to life's earliest metabolic processes—chemical reactions in cells that change food into ...

Scientists from the Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique in France and from Hawai’i have discovered that it is ...

How Could We Make It Work? Envision the ambitious project of transforming our planet into a self-sustaining interstellar ...

"We're trying to encounter an astronomical object that streaks through our solar system just once and we don’t want to miss ...

This galaxy's central black hole appears to be a "messy eater" as its interstellar scraps are strewn into space.

TINY critters will be sent into orbit to research how to prepare humans for long-haul space trips. Tardigrades could show how ...

The Trump Administration recently issued a new Executive Order titled "Modernizing Defense Acquisitions and Spurring Innovation in the ...

The spacecraft is being subjected to extreme temperature changes -- conditions it will face during launch and its journey ...

The famous carbon allotrope can catalyse the formation of hydrogen molecules in cold interstellar environments ...

A new model has been developed to simulate interstellar activity within our solar system and the nearby Alpha Centauri system ...

These icy bodies contain organic molecules — and don’t fall into any known category of celestial object we’ve seen before.