The moon will rise with Venus and the ice giant Neptune in the pre-dawn sky on Thursday, May 22.

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

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

The Moon hangs near Saturn and Neptune in the early-morning sky, and it's best to catch them earlier rather than later. Try ...

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

It may sound like science fiction, but for distant planets it could be a reality. Scientists believe that deep within the atmospheres of these ice giants are gases that are different from those ...

The ice, gas and dust, slamming into each other for millions of years, accumulated into enormous bodies that ultimately became giant planets – Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. While all this was ...

Our telescopes find new exoplanets and reveal deeper details about them everyday, unveiling massive hydrogen-rich atmosphere planets and icy worlds which may be able to harbor life even far from any ...

When the Sun was still forming and the protoplanetary disk was making planets, there was a distance from the Sun where it was cold enough for ice to gather ... formation the giant worlds began ...

These types of exoplanets are some of the most common in our galaxy - but they've remained mysterious until now.

They know that it is a sub-Neptune planet with a radius 2.35 times ... 10 c formed much further away from its star, where water ice would accumulate into a planet and be blown away by the ...