In a first-ever discovery, scientists have detected water ice surrounding a young star that closely resembles our Sun. This ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made the first-ever and long-anticipated detection of ice outside of our own solar system. The frozen water was found within a debris disk circling HD 181327, a ...

For decades it was thought that water was prevalent in the outer reaches of the Solar System early in its history, with ...

Xie's team reports that the disk reflectance spectrum of HD 181327 at 90–105 AU from it has a broad bowl-shaped dip between 2.7 and 3.4 µm. This is consistent with the 3 µm feature of water ...

NASA says with the help of data from the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have confirmed the presence of water crystals around a Sun-like star, some 155 light-years away from Earth. The star, ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope detected water ice in the debris disk of HD 181327. The star HD 181327, located 155 light-years away, is only 23 million years old. Water ice makes up over 20% of ...

The debris disk, also like our Kuiper Belt, is made up of remnants of a larger disk that once encircled the star — called HD 181327 — and probably gave birth to planets. To be clear ...

ALMA image of the ring of comets around HD 181327 (colours have been changed). The white contours represent the size of the Kuiper Belt in the Solar System.