In the distant reaches of the solar system are many icy objects that resemble snowmen. Now, a new study reveals the simple ...

Far beyond Neptune, in the frozen depths of the Kuiper Belt, many ancient objects oddly resemble giant snowmen made of ice ...

Our solar system hosts almost 900 known moons; more than 400 orbit the eight planets while the remaining orbit dwarf planets, ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...

An astronomy professor explains what exoplanets are, why he keeps looking for them and how Israel intercepts missiles “in ...

Astronomers have identified the most Earth like exoplanet yet, orbiting a sunlike star in the habitable zone 1,400 light years away. It is a snapshot of how far the search for life has come, and how ...

O n the outer edge of our solar system, past Neptune’s orbit, lies the Kuiper Belt, a wide band of small bodies drifting ...

Fresh observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show how vivid auroras surge through Uranus’s tilted magnetic field ...

In A Nutshell Arrokoth, a snowman-shaped object billions of miles from Earth, is one of the oldest and least-disturbed relics of the early solar system Scientists have long debated whether its two ...

If you think auroras on Earth are a strange and mesmerizing sight, that's nothing like what occurs on the perplexing world of ...