Our Solar System is home to many unique planetary bodies, including protoplanets and dwarf planets. Here are the unique ...

New research from NASA has found that the dwarf planet Ceres may be another place to look for evidence of primitive life in our solar system.

"Makemake is one of the largest and brightest icy worlds beyond Neptune, and its surface is dominated by frozen methane," ...

"The profile of the occultation was most consistent with it being a new satellite — a new moon — going around Quaoar." ...

Though no direct evidence of life has been found, models suggest Ceres had hot water shooting into its underground oceans ...

At the vast edge of the solar system, Pluto has long been perceived as a cold and lonely dwarf planet. However, a recent ...

Webb uncovers methane on Makemake, showing the icy dwarf planet is more active than once thought - just like Pluto.

The methane emission is explained by solar-excited fluorescence. Sunlight interacts with methane molecules, causing them to ...

For years, astronomers believed that Makemake, one of the brightest icy bodies beyond Neptune, was a frozen relic of the ...

Family, today I want to talk to you about something super interesting. Recently, scientists discovered some objects near the ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led team has reported the first detection of gas on the distant dwarf planet Makemake, using ...

New models suggest that Ceres, the asteroid belt's largest object, once had a radioactive core that could have sustained life ...