{"id":2042340,"date":"2026-07-14T07:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2042340"},"modified":"2026-07-14T07:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:43:09","slug":"sugar-in-space-astronomers-find-sweet-clue-to-the-origin-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2042340","title":{"rendered":"Sugar in space? 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Astronomers have detected a new type of sugar floating in deep space that may hold clues to how life first emerged on Earth.<br \/>\n    <\/h2>\n<div class=\"c-article-content c-article-content--next js-article-content\">\n<p>The space between stars just got a little sweeter.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"c-ad u-show-for-mobile-only\">\n<div class=\"c-ad__placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt loading=\"lazy\"><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-ad u-show-for-desktop\">\n<div class=\"c-ad__placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt loading=\"lazy\"><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Astronomers have detected a type of sugar in space that is also found in raspberries and self-tanners. The sugar, called erythrulose, lurks in what is known as the interstellar medium \u2014 thin clouds of gas and dust scattered between stars.<\/p>\n<p>Sugar does more than sweeten tea and coat doughnuts. Different varieties fuel our cells and make up DNA, and scientists are eager to understand how sugars form because they are a key ingredient for life as we know it.<\/p>\n<p>Using two dish-shaped radio telescopes in Spain, researchers collected data from a large gas cloud near the centre of the Milky Way. <\/p>\n<p>They identified the sugar in gas form by comparing telescope signals to samples gathered in a lab. It is the latest variety of sugar detected in space \u2014 in a region crossed by NASA&#8217;s twin Voyager probes, the farthest spacecraft ever to travel from Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The results were published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have found remarkable chemistry in our galaxy before, including building blocks for genetic material and components of the cell.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id data-event=\"widget_related\">\n<div class=\"c-widget-related__title\"><b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b><\/div>\n<ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n<li class=\"c-widget-related__item\">OpenAI, Meta and SpaceXAI push new AI models in a week of major releases<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-widget-related__item\">From space rovers to hunger maps: How AI is reshaping humanitarian aid<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>They spotted a cousin of table sugar near the centre of the Milky Way around 25 years ago, and black grains retrieved from asteroid Bennu by NASA&#8217;s Osiris-Rex spacecraft yielded other sugars, among them a key DNA ingredient.<\/p>\n<p>The latest sugar is not essential for life, but can easily convert into a form thought to be crucial to kick-starting it on Earth. It is also one of the most complex sugars spotted in space so far, said astrophysicist Erika Hamden of the University of Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>It is &#8220;a pristine example of the stuff that&#8217;s just floating out in the galaxy,&#8221; said Hamden, who had no role in the new research.<\/p>\n<p>These interstellar investigations are all about understanding how life began. Did distant comets or space rocks deliver the essential ingredients to Earth? Or were the key components already present, eventually giving rise to our solar system?<\/p>\n<p>The new sugar lends weight to the latter theory. 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sugar in space that is also found in raspberries and self-tanners. The sugar, called erythrulose, lurks in what is known as the interstellar medium \u2014 thin clouds of gas and dust scattered between stars.Sugar does more than sweeten tea and coat doughnuts. Different varieties fuel our cells and make up DNA, and scientists are eager to understand how sugars form because they are a key ingredient for life as we know it.Using two dish-shaped radio telescopes in Spain, researchers collected data from a large gas cloud near the centre of the Milky Way.They identified the sugar in gas form by comparing telescope signals to samples gathered in a lab. It is the latest variety of sugar detected in space \u2014 in a region crossed by NASA&#8217;s twin Voyager probes, the farthest spacecraft ever to travel from Earth.The results were published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy.Scientists have found remarkable chemistry in our galaxy before, including building blocks for genetic material and components of the cell.They spotted a cousin of table sugar near the centre of the Milky Way around 25 years ago, and black grains retrieved from asteroid Bennu by NASA&#8217;s Osiris-Rex spacecraft yielded other sugars, among them a key DNA ingredient.The latest sugar is not essential for life, but can easily convert into a form thought to be crucial to kick-starting it on Earth. It is also one of the most complex sugars spotted in space so far, said astrophysicist Erika Hamden of the University of Arizona.It is &#8220;a pristine example of the stuff that&#8217;s just floating out in the galaxy,&#8221; said Hamden, who had no role in the new research.These interstellar investigations are all about understanding how life began. Did distant comets or space rocks deliver the essential ingredients to Earth? Or were the key components already present, eventually giving rise to our solar system?The new sugar lends weight to the latter theory. Researchers now want to search for more sugars in space and learn how they convert between forms.Finding them in one location suggests they are likely hiding in distant corners of the galaxy alongside other important molecules, said study author Izaskun Jim\u00e9nez-Serra, an astrophysicist at the Centre for Astrobiology in Spain.&#8221;The key ingredients for the origin of life could be present in other regions across the galaxy, opening the possibility for life to develop elsewhere in the universe,&#8221; Jim\u00e9nez-Serra said.<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/2026\/07\/14\/sugar-in-space-astronomers-find-sweet-clue-to-the-origin-of-life&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/83\/70\/26\/1200x675_cmsv2_38662fb5-7c31-5a8e-8fea-b725d01e9cd0-9837026.jpg&#8221;] Europe News Almost 60 gored or bruised during Spain&#8217;s San Ferm\u00edn bull runs Sport Yamal answers Rajoy&#8217;s controversial column on France Cinema &#8216;Digger&#8217;: Will this film land Tom Cruise his first Oscar win? 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