Like many animals that hibernate, fat-tailed lemurs do so because of a lack of available food. For them, that’s during the ...

Astronomers from South Africa have conducted multi-band observations of a nearby dwarf irregular galaxy known as UGCA 320.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope are unraveling the mysteries of TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized exoplanet 40 ...

The striking thing about this is that repeating the procedure on the star turned up no evidence of carbon-based chemicals, ...

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

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 ...

Astronomers have observed a white dwarf, a highly compact stellar ember, that appears to have gobbled up an icy world akin to dwarf planet Pluto, a finding with implications regarding the likelihood o ...

A strange cosmic object nicknamed “The Accident” has given scientists their first glimpse of a rare silicon-based molecule ...

The methane gas may constitute a rarefied atmosphere, or it may come from erupting plumes on Makemake’s surface.

The planet of drive and desire is forming a tense square with our luminary of death and transformation this week.

Anyone hungry for the icy crunch of a Pluto -like body? No? Well, one nearby white dwarf is going all in on a Pluto-esque ...