Today, I must share a big news from the field of astronomy! The Webb Telescope has recently made a significant discovery by ...

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.

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

Astronomers have discovered methane gas on the distant dwarf planet Makemake using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) for the first time. This finding overturns the previous belief that Makemake is ...

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

Pluto might be small and distant, but it keeps surprising scientists. After the New Horizons spacecraft zipped past it in 2015, we got our first real look at its icy landscape and unexpectedly active ...

University of Virginia astronomy undergraduates focus on the shadows of asteroids and dwarf planets for their Earth-bound ...

Oumuamua, the first interstellar object detected in 2017, is most likely a fragment of a Pluto-like body. Scientists believe it was flung out of the solar system billions of years ago during its ...

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

A team of astronomers believe they may have discovered a new dwarf planet—just like Pluto—on the edge of our solar system. The object—which orbits out beyond Neptune—has been named "2017 OF201" by the ...

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