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

Our Solar System is home to many unique planetary bodies, including protoplanets and dwarf planets. Here are the unique ...

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

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

Though no direct evidence of life has been found, models suggest Ceres had hot water shooting into its underground oceans ...

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.

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.

At the vast edge of the solar system, Pluto has long been perceived as a cold and lonely dwarf planet. However, a recent ...

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

Dwarf planet Makemake may not be as inactive as astronomers believed, as per recent readings by JWST Researchers have ...

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