Imagine a world with no land, only endless ocean stretching in every direction. No mountains, no continents, just water ...

It is the closest planet to the sun. A roasting crisp of a world where daytime temperatures reach 800 degrees. And yet, stretched across the surface of Mercury are what look to be patches of ice ...

One of the strangest alien worlds ever discovered is a planet with vast platforms of burning ice. This is Gliese 436b, a planet just 30 light-years away.

One of the nation's leading science museums has quietly shaken up the universe by suggesting that Pluto is not necessarily a planet at all, but just a lump of ice. The startling suggestion comes ...

An odd planet the size of Neptune, made mostly of hot, solid water, has been discovered orbiting a nearby star and offers evidence that other planets may be covered with oceans, European ...

Long thought to be completely disordered, space ice appears to have some crystallized regions, new research suggests.

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Ceres, a dwarf planet located in the asteroid belt, still harbors many secrets. Recent discoveries could reshape our understanding of this mysterious celestial object. Computer simulations suggest ...

NASA rover reaches dwarf planet 03:52. The mountain’s isolation has been a major puzzle for scientists since Dawn first spotted it. Other icy worlds suspected of hosting cryovolcanoes, such as ...

An area of Pluto that researchers think was formed from the eruption of ice volcanoes is unique on the dwarf planet and in the solar system, a new study suggests, hinting at surprisingly recent ...

In July 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft gave humanity its only close-up of Pluto.The spacecraft found that the dwarf planet, far from being a featureless and frigid orb, was an ostentatious ...

Khuller: Yes, we have tried to make our model as flexible as possible so that it should work on any planet or moon with an atmosphere. We are hoping to collaborate with exoplanet experts, for example, ...