Amazing Stories for Curious Minds

From sweet raspberry-flavored space dust to the gunpowder odor of the Moon, space has all sorts of unique tastes and smells—thanks to complex, mysterious chemicals that scientists are just beginning to understand.

At the Boomerang Nebula, 5,000 light-years away, a dying star is shooting out gas so quickly that it actually cools down as it expands; the surrounding clouds are barely above absolute zero, making it the coldest place in the universe.