Recently, Chinese scientists conducted an unprecedented search using the FAST radio telescope in the TRAPPIST-1 system, located 40 light-years away from Earth, aiming to find possible signals from ...

New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure ...

"It shows that Makemake is not an inactive remnant of the outer solar system, but a dynamic body where methane ice is still ...

Our solar system is much like a trail of microcosmic breadcrumbs: Follow the molecular bits as far back as they go, and you'll learn a thing or two about where many of our planets and other celestial ...

Dwarf planet 2023 KQ14, Ammonite, has a stable orbit that challenges the hypothesis of the mysterious Planet Nine.

Hubble discovered a white dwarf planet devouring a Pluto-like object, revealing debris rich in water and nitrogen.

More than 50 times further from the Sun than Earth, the tiny dwarf planet Makemake is one of the last places you'd expect to ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have detected gas on the distant dwarf planet, Makemake. - NASA / ESA / Southwest Research Institute / A. Parker illustration Scientists have detected ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led team has reported the first detection of gas on the distant dwarf planet Makemake, using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This discovery makes Makemake only ...

A decade before George Lucas flew off to a galaxy far, far away, International Rescue introduced a generation to the coolest ...

The discovery of the Kuiper Belt fundamentally reshaped our understanding of the solar system's architecture and population, revealing a far larger and more complex system than previously imagined.

On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by the vote of the International Astronomical Union, which declared that Pluto, considered the ...