In its youth, the dwarf planet Ceres may have brewed a chemical banquet beneath its icy crust.

Our Solar System is home to many worlds, including protoplanets and dwarf planets. Protoplanets can grow into dwarf planet ...

Astronomers have detected the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being devoured by a white dwarf ...

Though no direct evidence of life has been found, models suggest Ceres had hot water shooting into its underground oceans ...

"The profile of the occultation was most consistent with it being a new satellite — a new moon — going around Quaoar." ...

"Makemake is one of the largest and brightest icy worlds beyond Neptune, and its surface is dominated by frozen methane," ...

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 ...

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 ...

Astronomers have uncovered the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being consumed by a white ...

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

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

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 ...