Webb Telescope finds crystalline water ice around star HD 181327. This discovery could reveal how icy bodies contribute to ...

A study found that these cosmic bodies appear to hold up remarkably well to sudden energy deposition and shock conditions.

The blissfully dark nights surrounding this month's new moon phase on Feb. 17 present a perfect opportunity to explore the ...

They show up as a mathematical solution in general relativity, basically as a time-reversed version of a black hole. Some ...

A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.

The fourth planet in the system is a rocky world, while the second and third ones are gas planets.

WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Astronomers have observed a planetary system that challenges current planet formation theories, with a rocky planet that formed beyond the orbits of its gaseous ...

Astronomers have uncovered a distant planetary system that flips a long-standing rule of planet formation on its head. Around the small red dwarf star LHS 1903, scientists expected to find rocky ...

Since the 1990s, astronomers have found a handful of other dwarf planets in the belt, such as Eris and Sedna, along with ...

A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.

A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover ...

Their observations of a faint, cool M-dwarf star called LHS 1903 revealed a system with a rocky world at its outer edge. LHS ...