THE search for alien life across our Solar System and beyond has so far kicked up nothing intelligent – let alone microbial.

The so-called 'planetesimal belts' are filled with tiny millimeter-sized particles created by collisions between comets.

Photoshop CC tutorial showing how to create a frozen, icy planet floating in the middle of a remote star field and back-lit ...

Astronomers have debated whether these planets are Earth-like rocky planets with thick hydrogen-rich atmospheres, or Neptune-like icy planets surrounded by water-rich atmospheres, called water worlds.

Saturn’s iconic rings are vanishing this year and won’t be visible again until 2028. Saturn is famed for its icy rings, but ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy material, the ingredients of planets," according to NASA's Goddard Space ...

This week, uncover some of the oldest ice on Earth, follow a dinosaur highway, learn how Pluto sealed the capture of its moon Charon with a “kiss,” and more.

It not only contains a Hot Jupiter but also an inner Super-Earth and an icy giant planet. Hot Jupiters are giant planets initially known to orbit alone close to their star. During their migration ...

And the new research may offer evidence for a subsurface ocean beneath Pluto’s icy crust. Charon and Earth ... which is unlike other smaller moons orbiting planets throughout our solar system.

Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but icy 10 hour kiss with Charon billions of years ago. When you purchase through links on our site ...