Far beyond Neptune, in the frozen depths of the Kuiper Belt, many ancient objects oddly resemble giant snowmen made of ice ...

Researchers simulated how gravitational collapse forms two-lobed contact binaries in the Kuiper Belt without destructive ...

In A Nutshell Arrokoth, a snowman-shaped object billions of miles from Earth, is one of the oldest and least-disturbed relics of the early solar system Scientists have long debated whether its two ...

Astronomers have long debated why so many icy objects in the outer solar system look like snowmen. Michigan State University ...

Astronomers have puzzled for years over a strange pattern in the outer solar system. A surprising number of icy bodies far beyond Neptune resemble snowmen, made of two rounded lobes stuck together.

Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised ...

Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...

Kapurthala Punjab A delegation of journalists from the Press Information Bureau (PIB), Jaipur, visited Pushpa Gujral Science ...

Deep below the crust and mantle, far beyond the reach of any drill, Earth’s core may be hiding a planetary-scale cache of hydrogen. Recent high‑pressure experiments suggest that this hidden store ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...

A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.

A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.