A trio of astronomers with the University of Tokyo and Niigata University has discovered a possible new class of interstellar ...

Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...

Scientists have discovered two enigmatic icy objects in deep space that defy explanation. Unlike typical interstellar ice ...

Molecular emission lines from mysterious icy objects captured by the ALMA telescope. The background image is an infrared composite color map, where 1.2-micron light is shown in cyan and 4.5-micron ...

Using a NASA supercomputer to run models, researchers led by SwRI astronomer David Nesvorny now believe that the Inner Oort cloud looks like a spiral disk, around 0.24 light-years across, with two ...

A newly identified Kuiper Belt trio, possibly only the second of its kind, could provide strong evidence that these distant ...

Astronomers believe they've discovered a spiral structure inside the Oort cloud that surrounds our solar system.

Over the last 10 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has taken pictures of Altjira and a 2011 study found that it appears as ...

Niigata, Japan - Organic molecules that serve as the building blocks of life are believed to form in space, but their exact formation sites and ...