Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

"Rings are mostly made of ice and small rocks," said William Saunders, a planetary scientist at NASA's Langley Research ...

The moon will rise with Venus and the ice giant Neptune in the pre-dawn sky on Thursday, May 22.

Lucas Brefka receives funding from a NASA Exoplanet Research Program ... send it to [email protected]. Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older than the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

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

This week, a beautiful lineup of Saturn, Venus and the moon will rise before the sun, and adorn the night sky. All three ...

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

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

Article continues below The solar system consists of the Sun, our home star, and everything that is bound to it by gravity: the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn ... according to ...

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

The fundamental building blocks for planet formation can exist even in environments with extreme ultraviolet radiation, ...