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

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," ...

Astronomers have discovered what they think may be another moon orbiting a distant dwarf planet called Quaoar. This small, ...

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

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

Family, today I want to talk to you about something super interesting. Recently, scientists discovered some objects near the ...

Ceres is a small, cold dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, but billions of years ago it could have ...

Astronomers are researching an Earth-like exoplanet that could contain water, according to NASA. The exoplanet, named ...

In Roman mythology, Pluto is the god and ruler of the dead. For a return mission to the dwarf planet, Howett and her ...

New research using NASA's powerful JWST telescope has identified a planet 41 light years away which may have an atmosphere.

Early results on the fourth planet from the TRAPPIST-1 star suggest it lost its original atmosphere to space long ago, and it ...