New infrared observations reveal that the rare interstellar visitor known as comet 3I/ATLAS has dramatically brightened ...
When 3I/ATLAS went round the back of the Sun as seen by Earth, the instant seemed as though it were a shut door. On October ...
The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows.
Scientists report the first confirmed detection of thiepine, a complex sulfur-bearing molecule, in an interstellar cloud near the Milky Way’s center.
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany and the Centro de Astrobiología, part of ...
A 13-atom molecule containing sulfur has been discovered in interstellar space for the first time, providing insight into the origins of the chemistry of life.
3I/ATLAS is the third interstellar visitor ever to visit the solar system having been formed around a distant star. Tune in ...
Scientists have shown that the building blocks of proteins can form naturally in deep space. This means the raw ingredients for life may exist long before planets are formed.
"We used to think that only very simple molecules could be created in these clouds. But we have shown that this is clearly ...
Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb claims humanity missed a historic chance to find alien life on interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, warning it may have been a spacecraft on a seeding mission.