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"There seems to be no limit for the degree of chemical complexity that interstellar space is able to fabricate." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Complex organic molecules that could be the precursors to the building blocks of life as we know it have been discovered in a ...

"We are really trying to understand how far we can go, chemically, toward larger biological molecules and what environments are needed to form them." Researchers have created a "fingerprint" of a ...

Many of the organic molecules that make up life on Earth have also been found in space. A University of Michigan astronomer will use the Herschel Space Observatory to study these chemical compounds in ...

All around the Universe, clouds of gas and dust swirl between stars, hiding tiny, reactive molecules that could hold answers to some of life’s biggest questions. Among them are strange compounds ...

A Danville man was sentenced on Wednesday after pleading guilty to murder in October. Bedford man arrested, charged with sex crimes against children A man from Bedford has been arrested and charged ...

Carl Sagan once famously said that "We are all made of stardust" but what forms the interstellar and circumstellar clouds that helped make the stars? By understanding these clouds, we can learn more ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Evidence of atomic nitrogen in interstellar gas clouds suggests that pre-life molecules may be present in comets, a discovery that gives a clue about the early conditions that gave ...

"The universe is a pretty big place. So if it's just us... seems like an awful waste of space," goes a line from the 1997 film "Contact." In the movie, Jodie Foster plays Dr. Ellie Arroway, a radio ...

Researchers have created a "fingerprint" of a sulfur-based molecule found in space that may offer new clues about the formation of life on Earth, a new study reports. Sulfur is an essential element ...

(Nanowerk News) A team led by researchers at MIT has discovered that a distant interstellar cloud contains an abundance of pyrene, a type of large, carbon-containing molecule known as a polycyclic ...