Hubble has captured a dense, burned-out star in the act of consuming a Pluto-like object. Happening some 260 light years from Earth, the new observation, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal ...

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Astronomers have discovered methane gas on the distant dwarf planet Makemake using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) for the first time. This finding overturns the previous belief that Makemake is ...

In our nearby stellar neighborhood, a burned-out star is snacking on a fragment of a Pluto-like object. With its unique ultraviolet capability, only NASA's Hubble Space Telescope could identify that ...

Methane gas may signal an atmosphere or geological activity on a distant dwarf planet located at the outer edge of the Solar System. A research team led by the Southwest Research Institute has ...

The Kuiper Belt is loosely defined as a doughnut-shaped swath of space beginning just beyond the orbit of Neptune and ...

How can nuclear propulsion help improve deep space missions by significantly reducing the amount of time to reach Mars and beyond? This is what a recent st | Space ...

Federal funding is about to run out for 19 active space missions studying Earth's climate, exploring the Solar System, and ...

New research from NASA has found that the dwarf planet Ceres may be another place to look for evidence of primitive life in our solar system.

During this clumping together, gaps open up in the protoplanetary disk, which we see as rings around the star. The Atacama ...

Liquid uranium rockets could make the Red Planet a six-month commute.