Astronomers have long been intrigued by the makeup of the asteroid belt’s largest body. When it was first spotted in 1801, ...

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Nanaimo Astronomy Society’s guest speaker normally studies the orbital dynamics of objects in the outer solar system's Kuiper ...

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 ...

From gravel-size meteoroids to mountain-size asteroids and even visitors from other star systems, space is packed with ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has achieved a groundbreaking feat by definitively detecting crystalline ice water in the ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has detected frozen water ice in a young star system, HD 181327, marking the first ...

The mystery of how planets and icy objects formed in the farthest reaches of our solar system just took an exciting turn. A ...