Water ice is a far more complex substance than we might assume. Scientists have now created an exotic new form of ice in the ...
The objects were in the same region of the sky but were 13,000 light-years apart and not related to each other. The details of the observation were published in a paper available at the arXiv preprint ...
Debris from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that blasted off in the United States on February 1 entered the Earth's atmosphere over ...
Astronomers have discovered two strange objects that could be young stars — except they're completely surrounded by ice. Astronomers ... and 2011 by Japan's AKARI space telescope.
Scientists at NASA for the first time have been able to observe the make up of Pluto and other small and icy celestial bodies ...
Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...
The reason was simple, if at first nonsensical: The object not only was definitely not an asteroid, but wasn't any sort of space object at all. Rather, it was a cherry-red Tesla Roadster.
Consequently, gas clouds around partially formed stars tend to absorb light at specific wavelengths associated with ice molecules. So when two objects that showed ice absorption features were ...