In a first-ever discovery, scientists have detected water ice surrounding a young star that closely resembles our Sun. This ...

U.S. astronomers hunting for "Planet Nine" have instead stumbled on what appears to be a new dwarf planet in the solar system ...

It's an evocative idea that has long bedeviled scientists: a huge and mysterious planet is lurking in the darkness at the ...

Plants mastered the art of harvesting sunlight billions of years ago, using elegant rings of pigments in their leaves. Now, ...

Information about Uranus is limited. What we know is that the planet is composed mainly of water and ammonia ice, its ...

Webb’s powerful instruments have detected crystalline water ice in a distant star system, offering rare insight into planet ...

Based on 20 years of observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, new research sheds light on one of the solar system’s ...

The discovery of water ice around a distant star is allowing scientists to study how the key ingredient for life is delivered ...

If you go beyond the team’s record and dive into the specific numbers surrounding the pitching staff as a whole, they are ...

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 ...

So which planets in our solar system have rings?All four giant planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — sport these spectacular structures. Plus, many other objects in the solar system, ...