The Webb Telescope reveals new insights into icy planetesimals, shedding light on the early solar system's evolution.

The water that makes up the oceans acted as a key ingredient for the development of life on Earth. However, scientists still ...

Astronomers posed over the past decade that dark comets, or objects that resemble asteroids but move like comets, may exist.

Operations teams have confirmed NASA's mission to "touch" the sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar ...

In a groundbreaking first, the Parker Solar Probe has successfully completed its closest encounter with the Sun. So where ...

Researchers at the University of Central Florida have revolutionized our understanding of the solar system's formation with ...

New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and centaurs. The findings reveal the distribution of ices in ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the Sun than ever before. It traveled at 430,000 mph, making it the fastest ...

New studies led by researchers at the University of Central Florida offer for the first time a clearer picture of how the ...

“By analyzing the reflectivity, and the orbits, we found that our solar system contains two different types of dark comets.” Inner dark comets can be found within the inner solar ...

Oumuamua’s speed and path around the Sun don’t match a typical asteroid, but it also has no bright tail or nucleus (icy core) ...