Makemake, discovered in 2005, orbits the Kuiper Belt nearly 6.8 billion kilometers from the Sun and is one of the brightest objects in the outer Solar System, reflecting more than 70% of the sunlight ...

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 ...

More than 2 billion kilometers farther from the sun than Pluto, a frigid world named Makemake sports the most distant gas ever seen in our solar system, new observations reveal. “By surprise, we found ...

Ammonite, officially designated 2023 KQ14, is a distant world that keeps its cool far beyond Neptune. The discovery appears in a peer reviewed study that also puts fresh pressure on the idea of a ...

An SwRI-led team used Webb telescope observations (white) to detect methane gas on the distant dwarf planet Makemake. Sharp emission peaks near 3.3 microns reveal methane in the gas phase above ...

Dwarf planet Ceres is shown in these enhanced-color renderings that use images from NASA’s Dawn mission. Credit: NASA At first glance, the dwarf planet Ceres hardly inspires dreams of alien life.

Makemake, one of the brightest icy bodies beyond Neptune, just joined an exclusive club. Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, experts have detected gas above its surface. This is the second ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have detected gas on the distant dwarf planet, Makemake. Credit: NASA / ESA / Southwest Research Institute / A. Parker illustration Scientists have ...

The dwarf planet Ceres, the only dwarf planet in the main asteroid belt, might have once been hospitable for life, according to a recent study. NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA Ceres, the ...

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 ...