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 ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - A recent study introduces a potential new candidate, dubbed Planet Y, inferred from the tilted orbits of distant objects in the Kuiper Belt, a ring of icy bodies beyond Neptune, CNN ...

The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper’s authors have dubbed ...

New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure if the gas is contained within a wispy atmosphere or being ejected into ...

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 ...

The planet of drive and desire is forming a tense square with our luminary of death and transformation this week, and a select few will really be feeling the fallout. On Wednesday, Sept. 24, Mars in ...