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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.

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

While there’s no direct evidence of extraterrestrial life on Ceres (or anyplace but Earth), a new study published in Science Advances suggests Ceres may have had conditions suitable for life between 4 ...

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

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The lead author, Sylvia Protopapa, a chief scientist at the Southwest Research Institute (SWRI), explained that methane dominates Makemake's frozen surface and is now also found in the gas phase above ...

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

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New models suggest that Ceres, the asteroid belt's largest object, once had a radioactive core that could have sustained life in the dwarf planet's hidden subsurface ocean billions of years ago.