"Our work shows that sugars can form naturally in space," the lead author of this research says.

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Astronomers have discovered a naturally occurring sugar in a cloud near the Milky Way's centre, offering new evidence that ...

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A mysterious repeating radio signal detected deep in the southern sky has been traced not to a neutron star or magnetar, as ...

The space between stars just got a little sweeter. Astronomers have detected a type of sugar in space that’s also found in ...

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