The cryovolcanic "centaur" comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has erupted four times in less than 48 hours, becoming unusually ...

A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer ...

Previous observations suggested that Ceres was less than 30% ice, and its craters were thought to imply that the dwarf planet ...

The icy shell of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, may possibly contain a six-mile-thick layer of methane ice beneath its surface ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

Underneath the icy, rocky surface of asteroids – such as the 16 Psyche which is about 124 miles wide – there’s an estimated ...

Pieces of the asteroid Bennu, collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, are being studied at Brown as part of an effort to ...

The long-period comets spend most of their time at those ... Oort speculated the cloud contained 100 billion of these icy objects. That may be as numerous as the number of stars in our galaxy.

NARRATOR: Sometimes, icy rocks are ejected from the frigid outer regions of the Solar System and pulled towards the sun. These are known as comets. HOWETT: Comets are basically dirty snowballs ...

Nicknamed the “Halloween comet,” Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) evaporated during its flyby of the sun on Monday morning. An ESA and NASA telescope captured its demise.