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

Normally when a medium-size star dies, it blasts away the bulk of material in its system. The Hubble discovery was surprising to astronomers because most would predict the distant icy worlds to be ...

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

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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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 ...

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 ...

"The surfaces of Nix and Hydra are as close to unaltered as you can get." Two of Pluto's midsize moons may be made of the guts of its largest moon, Charon, new research suggests. New observations with ...

Astronomers have picked up evidence of an Earth-sized world, distinct from the previously hypothesised Planet Nine and Planet ...

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

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 ...