In our nearby stellar neighborhood, a burned-out star is snacking on a fragment of a Pluto-like object. With its unique ultraviolet capability, only NASA's Hubble Space Telescope could identify that ...

Astronomers have detected the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being devoured by a white dwarf ...

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

Hubble can capture galaxies so far away their light took billions of years to arrive, yet Pluto remains a blur. The reason lies in size, distance, and the limits of resolution. It’s a paradox that ...

In a study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MRNAS), astronomers from the University of Warwick, Europe, and the United States found strong evidence that ...

Pluto may have been demoted to non-planet status, but it still commands a court of five moons, as is fitting for the king of ...

University of Warwick astronomers have uncovered the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being consumed by a white dwarf ...

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS spacecraft close flyby SwRI mission has gained global attention. Scientists propose a mission to ...

What can the presence of methane on a dwarf planet that orbits farther out than Pluto teach scientists about the formation ...

The researchers analyzed data obtained from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which observed Makemake using its powerful infrared instruments. The observations indicated that the surface of ...

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.