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

NASA’s exoplanet tally has climbed to 6,000, revealing bizarre and beautiful worlds far stranger than our own.

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

The James Webb Space Telescope provides an unprecedented view of the places where planets are born: protoplanetary disks, true cosmic cradles. Located about 525 light-years away, in the ...

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

Astronomers are tracking a newly discovered interstellar visitor called 3I/ATLAS, and early research suggests it may be ...

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

New data from the International Gemini Observatory revealed the object has grown in its estimated size, with it now weighing ...