In a first-ever discovery, scientists have detected water ice surrounding a young star that closely resembles our Sun. This ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made the first-ever and long-anticipated detection of ice outside of our own solar system. The frozen water was found within a debris disk circling HD 181327, a ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and elsewhere have detected ...

For decades it was thought that water was prevalent in the outer reaches of the Solar System early in its history, with ...

This finding has opened up new avenues for understanding the early universe and the origins of water on our planet ...

Webb’s powerful instruments have detected crystalline water ice in a distant star system, offering rare insight into planet ...

According to the space agency, scientists have confirmed the presence of ice around HD 181327, a star that is similar to our Sun. The giant star is located about 155 light-years away from Earth ...

The debris disk, also like our Kuiper Belt, is made up of remnants of a larger disk that once encircled the star — called HD 181327 — and probably gave birth to planets. To be clear ...

Crystalline water ice was found in the debris disk of star HD 181327. The star is 23 million years old and located 155 light-years away. Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team of ...