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

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.

If you have kids in school, or even if you don’t, you’ve probably realized that there’s a lot about the day-to-day of school ...

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 ...