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," ...

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 ...

The solar system lost its ninth planet back when Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet, but research might indicate that there ...

It's much harder to find, but there are a lot more of them." The first interstellar object to visit the solar system may have ...

Our Solar System is home to many unique planetary bodies, including protoplanets and dwarf planets. Here are the unique ...

Pluto has long been one of the most debated celestial bodies in our solar system. Once classified as the ninth planet, it was ...

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

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 ...

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

Traditional theories suggest that Pluto's formation process is similar to that of other celestial bodies in the Kuiper Belt, ...