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

Normally when a medium-size star dies, it blasts away the bulk of material in its system. The Hubble discovery was surprising ...

Simultaneously cooling Pluto while energizing atmospheric molecules to allow them to escape into space, Pluto's haze plays a key role in the planet's energy balance.

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

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Pluto is a reasonably difficult object to study, lying beyond the orbit of Neptune (for the majority of its orbit) in the Kuiper Belt. Beyond sending a probe to the planet (which NASA did in 2015) we ...

A study of Pluto’s bright frosts suggests that the way the planet cools down is rapid and disorganised. The results were presented at the European Planetary Science Congress in Berlin. Pluto’s surface ...

When Pluto passed in front of a star on the night of August 15, 2018, a Southwest Research Institute-led team of astronomers had deployed telescopes at numerous sites in the U.S. and Mexico. This was ...

Pluto’s atmosphere, though tenuous compared to those of the terrestrial planets, exhibits a fascinating complexity driven by extreme temperatures and dynamic surface interactions. Predominantly ...

On the side of the Sun facing Earth, a giant coronal hole appeared in the shape of an enormous love heart, many times the ...