Later, it was reclassified as a dwarf planet, yet its mysterious charm has not diminished at all. Why is that? Because Pluto's complex and elusive terrain is like a mysterious key that may hold the ...

Traditional views hold that Pluto formed in the cold Kuiper Belt, gradually accumulating ice and rock. Over the long ages, the decay of radioactive elements within the rocks released heat, gradually ...

Dwarf planet Makemake may not be as inactive as astronomers believed, as per recent readings by JWST Researchers have detected something very unique in Makemake, a dwarf planet beyond Neptune in the ...

University of Virginia astronomy undergraduates focus on the shadows of asteroids and dwarf planets for their Earth-bound observations.

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.

What if Pluto wasn’t the end? What if our Solar System hides dozens - maybe hundreds - of strange frozen worlds beyond Neptune? In this video, we take you on a journey through the mysterious outer ...

A detailed study of a cosmic mystery known as "The Accident" has now provided new insight into the formation of clouds on ...

There are quite a few other places we might find life in the solar system, including dwarf planets like Ceres. Ceres is ...

White dwarfs may still host habitable planets. Conditions like tidal heating and migration shape their potential for life. The Sun will eventually die. This will occur when it exhausts the hydrogen ...

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at the Lasker Awards for biomedical research, how gene editing could cure ...

TRAPPIST-1e, just 40 light-years away, may host a nitrogen-rich atmosphere, making it the most Earth-like exoplanet ...

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