On a frigid orbit beyond Neptune, some of the solar system’s smallest worlds project a strange silhouette. Two rounded lobes, pressed together with a narrow “neck,” like a snowman that never melted.

A new paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society argues the simplest answer may work: contact binaries like Arrokoth can form directly during the gravitational collapse of a dense ...

Scientists have long know many objects floating at the solar system's out edges resemble snowmen, but the reasons why were never clear. Now a student at Michigan State University has created the first ...

BEREA-- This snowman still stands in front of an Edgewood Drive home despite the warmer weather since when it was built. Do you know of other snowmen, forts or objects built during the recent snow?

For all the excitement about Ultima Thule, the unprecedentedly distant space object that made history with NASA’s New Horizons probe on New Year’s Day, we were never quite sure what it actually was.

Research adds weight to theory Arrokoth’s two lobes produced by gravitational collapse – and reveals process It is the most distant and primitive object ever visited by a spacecraft from Earth: now ...