Dwarf planet Makemake may not be as inactive as astronomers believed, as per recent readings by JWST Researchers have ...

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

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

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

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.

Astronomers utilized data from the Gemini South telescope in Chile and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) from NASA to detect silane (SiH₄) in the atmosphere of "The Accident." This simple molecule ...

Deep in space, an ancient brown dwarf nicknamed "The Accident" has revealed the first-ever detection of a molecule that ...

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

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

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

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

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