There are no confirmed exomoons, moons orbiting distant exoplanets in other solar systems. There are a few candidates, but ...
Through international collaboration, a team of astronomers has confirmed two exoplanets and found hints of a third exoplanet ...
In a startling new observation, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a planet with an atmosphere made almost ...
Have you ever had one of those moments where the sheer vastness of the world or the universe completely blows your mind? It might happen while lying on the hood of your car, gazing at ... Read more ...
JWST found a carbon-atmosphere planet orbiting a pulsar, challenging current models of how planets form. Scientific progress ...
A newly discovered dwarf planet could hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of our solar system’s outer reaches — but what could it mean for humanity's future in space? George Santos' prison ...
A new study has proposed the existence of Planet Y, an alternative Planet Nine candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth than the hypothetical Planet X, which astronomers have been hunting for ...
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 ...
"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 ...
WASHINGTON, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact stellar ember - that appears to have gobbled up an icy world akin to the ...
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 ...
Data from NASA's Dawn mission, analyzed via thermal and chemical models, suggests Ceres possessed a long-lasting internal heat source driven by radioactive element decay. This heat source, reaching ...