Dwarf planet Ceres now appears less like a dead rock and more like a world that may have briefly brimmed with potential for life Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led team has reported the first detection of gas on the distant dwarf planet Makemake, using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This discovery makes Makemake only ...

"It shows that Makemake is not an inactive remnant of the outer solar system, but a dynamic body where methane ice is still evolving." Scientists have detected methane gas on the dwarf planet Makemake ...

Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, has long been cast as a frozen relic of the early solar system — quiet, airless, and lifeless. But new research suggests that ...

Scientists have detected methane gas on the dwarf planet Makemake, indicating that the distant body is a dynamic icy world. The discovery was made by a team led by the Southwest Research Institute ...

Researchers have detected something very unique in Makemake, a dwarf planet beyond Neptune in the Solar System. This new finding has been explained in detail in the journal The Astrophysical Journal ...

More than 50 times further from the Sun than Earth, the tiny dwarf planet Makemake is one of the last places you'd expect to find an intact gaseous atmosphere. Not only is it incredibly cold, being ...