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A small team led by Sihao Cheng, Martin A. and Helen Chooljian Member in the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Natural ...

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The first conclusive discovery of crystalline frozen water in a far-off young star system has been made by researchers using ...

Nanaimo Astronomy Society’s guest speaker normally studies the orbital dynamics of objects in the outer solar system's Kuiper Belt, but lately she’s been distracted by space junk landing in farm ...

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

The image was created by putting together photos taken by three instruments from their newly-launched PUNCH mission. It's the ...

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

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