Our solar system is much like a trail of microcosmic breadcrumbs: Follow the molecular bits as far back as they go, and you'll learn a thing or two about where many of our planets and other celestial ...
Though no direct evidence of life has been found, models suggest Ceres had hot water shooting into its underground oceans ...
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 ...
"The profile of the occultation was most consistent with it being a new satellite — a new moon — going around Quaoar." ...
New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure ...
The odds for life existing on other planets has just skyrocketed after a NASA rover unearthed new evidence on Mars. The odds ...
The methane gas may constitute a rarefied atmosphere, or it may come from erupting plumes on Makemake’s surface.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered phosphine in the atmosphere of a brown dwarf — the same chemical that ...