3I/ATLAS carrying weapons of mass destruction? This explainer presents all scientific observations about methanol and hydrogen cyanide foun...

Astronomers at the Center for Research in Information and Communication Technologies (CITIC) at the University of A Coruña, Spain, have con...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, the third of its kind detected, has revealed signs of water, surprising scientists with its activity far from ...

Many may question whether there’s life possible on the Red planet or not and if there is, why haven’t people moved out yet? Here’s what NAS...

Samples obtained from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu by Japan's Hayabusa2 mission have been found to contain organic molecules.

While until recently, scientists thought that the formation of amino acids like glycine required energy, setting clear constraints to the e...

A molecular cloud is an interstellar cloud of dust, gas, and a variety of molecules ranging from molecular hydrogen (H2) to complex, carbon...

Toronto, Dec 13 (IANS) Giving some credence to the view that life could well have originated in space, a new study has shown that a number ...

New York, Oct 3 (IANS) In a big blow to finding signs of life on other planets, astronomers have detected faint molecular fingerprint of me...

These molecules have been found in meteorites on Earth and comets in our Solar System but none has been detected in the vast reaches of int...

Now, for the first time, repeated detections at a comet have been confirmed by Rosetta in Comet 67P/C-G's fuzzy atmosphere, or coma.

They propose the first realistic scenario for the formation of this key compound, which had never been detected in meteorites or cometary i...

The discovery marks the first time ethyl alcohol, the same type in alcoholic beverages, has been observed in a comet, researchers said.

The solar wind can travel millions of miles into deep space, and when it bombards comets the high-energy particles interact with the water ...

Astronomers have detected presence of complex organic molecules, the building blocks of life, in a protoplanetary disc surrounding a young ...

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has made the first definitive detection of organic molecules, the building blocks of all known forms of terrest...

Comets are space debris or leftover fragments after the formation of the solar system. They originate from a region beyond the orbits of th...