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

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

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

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

The dwarf planet Pluto and its five known natural satellites (Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra) may be frigid, but ...

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

Phases of ice that exist naturally only on frozen moons could be detected using infrared spectroscopy, according to new ...

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.

Dwarf planet Makemake may not be as inactive as astronomers believed, as per recent readings by JWST Researchers have detected something very unique in Makemake, a dwarf planet beyond Neptune in the ...

How can nuclear propulsion help improve deep space missions by significantly reducing the amount of time to reach Mars and beyond? This is what a recent st | Space ...

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

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