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

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

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

New NASA supercomputer simulations show that Saturn's rings may have been formed by a 'massive collision' of icy moons.

New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: Space.com | Science: Amy Simon (NASA-GSFC) / Animation: Joseph DePasquale (STScI) ...

A rare celestial alignment in April 2025 gave NASA scientists the chance to study Uranus in exceptional detail as it passed ...

Exoplanets—planets that orbit stars beyond our solar system—have transformed our understanding of the universe. Since the ...

With its beautiful rings, Saturn may be the most stunning planet in the solar system. It is the sixth planet from the sun and ...

Scientists observe rare light bursts from the Milky Way’s black hole, Sagittarius A, offering new insights into black holes ...

Water ice is a crucial building block of planetary systems. We've found plenty of it in our own Solar System, in places like ...

Crystalline water ice has been found in a dusty debris disk that orbits a Sun-like star, only 23 million years old, 155 light ...