Northern lights, or auroras, are not exclusive to Earth. Astronomers have already detected this phenomenon on most planets and many moons in our solar system. Now, an international research team has ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. New research suggests that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faint amounts of methane ...

A star is heading toward the outskirts of our solar system, and it’s getting here sooner than expected.Gliese 710, a rogue dwarf star, is now estimated to brush past our solar neighborhood in just ...

The striking thing about this is that repeating the procedure on the star turned up no evidence of carbon-based chemicals, even though the system is young enough that it should still have a ...

In May 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were testing how radio waves bounced off balloon satellites developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories. But they kept getting an unpleasant hissing noise, in ...

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 find an intact gaseous atmosphere. Not only is it incredibly cold, being ...

Scientists have discovered methane gas on the dwarf planet Makemake, a finding that has surprised astronomers studying the outer solar system.

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

University of Warwick astronomers have uncovered the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being consumed by a white dwarf star outside our solar system.

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 long expected in the atmospheres of Jupiter, Saturn, and other giant planets.