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

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

The presence of water-ice in the debris disk around a young star could have helped facilitate the growth and development of ...

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

At the very edge of our solar system, beyond the grasp of Neptune and even past the icy sprawl of Pluto’s domain, a new ...

On May 21, the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of 2017 OF 201, which, because ...

"Basically, we detected a water–ice reservoir." At long last, particles of water–ice have been discovered in the frozen Kuiper Belt of another star. The discovery, made by the James Webb Space ...

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 ...

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

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