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 ...

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.

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

Our Solar System is home to many worlds, including protoplanets and dwarf planets. Protoplanets can grow into dwarf planet ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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