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 ...

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

Hale-Bopp originated in the Oort Cloud, a theoretical shell of icy planetesimals surrounding the sun in the outer reaches of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Temporary flows of saltwater could explain mysterious gullies and fan-shaped deposits spotted across asteroid Vesta.

NASA has released a new edition of Issue 4 of the Astrobiology Graphic History series. The issue now includes NASA's Europa ...

Saturn's Moon Titan Has Insulating Methane-Rich Crust Up to Six Miles Thick Oct. 25, 2024 — A new study has revealed that methane gas may be trapped within the icy surface of Saturn's moon Titan ...

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.