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

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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 ...

Pluto may have been demoted to non-planet status, but it still commands a court of five moons, as is fitting for the king of darkness; after all, Pluto is the Roman equivalent of the Greek God Hades.

NASA's Glenn Research Centre in Northeast Ohio has been selected to lead the development of nuclear power systems for lunar ...

In May 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were testing how radio waves bounced off balloon satellites developed by Bell ...

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 ...

NASA says its Hubble Space Telescope has detected a white dwarf star that consumed fragments of a Pluto-like object. Space ...

The spacecraft will map the boundaries of the heliosphere, study how Earth’s outer atmosphere reacts to solar activity and ...

The final eclipse of 2025 will unfold this weekend, but despite some of the hype online, most of the world will miss the ...

NASA acting administrator Sean Duffy is ramping up his messaging on the agency’s quest to beat China to the moon. But lawmakers from both parties have a message of their own.