At the vast edge of the solar system, Pluto has long been perceived as a cold and lonely dwarf planet. However, a recent ...

Traditional theories suggest that Pluto's formation process is similar to that of other celestial bodies in the Kuiper Belt, ...

The methane emission is explained by solar-excited fluorescence. Sunlight interacts with methane molecules, causing them to ...

Webb uncovers methane on Makemake, showing the icy dwarf planet is more active than once thought - just like Pluto.

Phases of ice that exist naturally only on frozen moons could be detected using infrared spectroscopy, according to new ...

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

Indiana Governor Mike Braun has appointed Dr. Glen Kissel of Evansville to the University of Southern Indiana Board of ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led team has reported the first detection of gas on the distant dwarf planet Makemake, using ...

In a few billion years, our Sun will become so violently hot that it could wipe out all life in the Milky Way. Yet, ...

One entrance to Hades is supposedly located at the southernmost point of mainland Greece, in the Cape Matapan Caves. The area ...