A sugar found in raspberries and sunless tanning products has turned up near the Milky Way’s center. The discovery marks the ...

It turns out the universe has something of a sweet tooth. Astronomers have detected a new type of sugar floating in deep space that may hold clues to how life first emerged on Earth.

Astronomers have detected a type of sugar in space that’s also found in raspberries. The sugar, called erythrulose, lurks in ...

The abundance of erythrulose in space leads scientists to believe that millions of tonnes of such sugars could have arrived ...

Erythrulose—a sugar found in raspberries—is also prevalent in a giant molecular cloud close to our galaxy’s core, scientists ...