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

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

One Pluto year equals 248 Earth years. At 1473 miles in diameter—about half the width of the United States—Pluto is the ...

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

Astronomers have confirmed what was long suspected - frozen water is spread throughout the universe. NASA's James Webb Space ...

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

Astronomers sing the James Webb Space Telescope have made an unequivocal detection of frozen water in another star system for ...