Methane gas may signal an atmosphere or geological activity on a distant dwarf planet located at the outer edge of the Solar System. A research team led by the Southwest Research Institute has ...

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In its youth, the dwarf planet Ceres may have brewed a chemical banquet beneath its icy crust.

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

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 ...

Makemake is about 890 miles wide, roughly two-thirds the size of Pluto. Early observations indicated it had almost no atmosphere—essentially just a little air, if any. However, Webb's powerful ...

For years, astronomers believed that Makemake, one of the brightest icy bodies beyond Neptune, was a frozen relic of the outer solar system. New observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope ...

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

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

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