Pluto once held its place proudly as the ninth planet in our solar system,a distant, icy world on the edge of the cosmic frontier. But in 2006, everything changed. This in-depth explainer unpacks the ...

Scientists from UCL and the University of Cambridge have revealed that "space ice"—long thought to be completely ...

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At up to 30 km wide, 3I/ATLAS is officially dummy thicc—with two Cs and a tail. Astronomers are calling it “the Lizzo of ...

Neptune is called an “ice giant” because it’s mostly made of a thick, slushy mix of water, methane, and ammonia, which ...