New research suggests that essential components of life may assemble in interstellar space long before planets or oceans ...

“Bit by bit, these tiny building blocks land on rocky planets within a newly formed solar system. If those planets happen to ...

Challenging long-held assumptions, Aarhus University researchers have demonstrated that the protein building blocks essential ...

New experiments reveal that protein precursors can form naturally in deep space under extreme cold and radiation. Scientists ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures visible and infrared images of protoplanetary disks, showing gas and dust structures ...

What was originally thought to be a planet orbiting the Fomalhaut star was probably just the fallout of a wild collision.

A free-floating planet drifting through space is being closely followed by scientists who are managing to find out more about its mass and direction. Scientists have known about this and other rogue ...

Jupiter harbors more oxygen than the sun, a new study finds, giving astronomers a crucial clue about how our solar system's ...