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.

"The profile of the occultation was most consistent with it being a new satellite — a new moon — going around Quaoar." ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

For September 2025, the full moon, the Harvest Moon, occurs on September 7. It is a total lunar eclipse, but on the other ...

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

The first week of September 2025 was buzzing with space updates—from SpaceX’s Starlink blitz marking a historic booster milestone, to Israel’s hush-hush spy ...