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

Ramesh Nathan told investors his Bay Area spacecraft company had seven offices around the world, employed more than 15,000 ...

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

It's up in the air how much longer the beloved telescope will be with us.

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

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

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...

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

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

Researchers have now discovered a very interesting piece of the puzzle by creating the conditions of interstellar space in the lab. Scientists from the Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique ...

A new study suggests that the answers lie somewhere out in space, based on a recreation of the conditions in interstellar clouds that likely gave our planet a biological jumpstart. The study, recently ...

NASA’s science program manages a fleet of over 70 active missions stretching from the sun to interstellar space. Roughly 50 more are under intensive development. Despite this scale, the efforts ...