A cloud of collapsing gas created our Sun, the first thing to form in our solar system. This happened about 4½ billion years ...

However, you're more likely to read and hear about meteors, meteoroids, meteorites, comets, and asteroids online and in the ...

The mystery of how planets and icy objects formed in the farthest reaches of our solar system just took an exciting turn. A ...

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

Past Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a donut-shaped swarm of icy bodies left over from the Solar System’s youth. Pluto, Eris, and Haumea are the celebrity residents, but hundreds of thousands of ...

“Project Kuiper will deliver high-speed, low-latency internet to virtually any location on the planet, and we expect to begin delivering service to customers later this year. Our first ...

The ice that NASA's Webb discovered has a crystalline structure, which is also present in other well-researched regions of the solar system, like the Kuiper Belt and Saturn's rings.(NASA ...

Chen added: "What's most striking is that this data looks similar to the telescope's other recent observations of Kuiper Belt objects in our own solar system." In fact, the team said, billions of ...