In the cold, distant reaches of the Solar System, far beyond Pluto, astronomers have just identified what could be a new ...

There’s a new frozen oddball orbiting the Sun, and it’s not your average space rock. It’s a planet—a minor one, to be ...

A small team led by Sihao Cheng, Martin A. and Helen Chooljian Member in the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Natural ...

The first conclusive discovery of crystalline frozen water in a far-off young star system has been made by researchers using ...

At long last, particles of water–ice have been discovered in the frozen Kuiper Belt of another star. The discovery, made by ...

From gravel-size meteoroids to mountain-size asteroids and even visitors from other star systems, space is packed with ...

The mystery of how planets and icy objects formed in the farthest reaches of our solar system just took an exciting turn. A ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed that crystalline water ice exists in the debris disk surrounding HD 181327, a ...

Researchers say crystalline water ice has been clearly found. It lies inside a dusty debris ring around a star 155 ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made the first-ever and long-anticipated detection of ice outside of our own solar ...