Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, might have formed after a collision with a lost moon, according to new research.

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 ...

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

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

When dinosaur fossils surface at a site, it is often not possible to tell how many millions of years ago their bones were ...

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

The finding, published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, offers an explanation based on a surprisingly simple process: gravitational collapse. For years, the scientific ...

Learn why some icy objects inhabiting a remote region beyond Neptune look like snowmen.

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.

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

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