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

Dwarf planet Makemake may not be as inactive as astronomers believed, as per recent readings by JWST Researchers have detected something very unique in Makemake, a dwarf planet beyond Neptune in the ...

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

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

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

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

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

In Roman mythology, Pluto is the god and ruler of the dead. For a return mission to the dwarf planet, Howett and her colleagues opted for the name Persephone, after Pluto's wife and "queen of the ...

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

The solar system lost its ninth planet back when Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet, but research might indicate that there ...

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

Deep in space, an ancient brown dwarf nicknamed "The Accident" has revealed the first-ever detection of a molecule that ...