The methane gas may constitute a rarefied atmosphere, or it may come from erupting plumes on Makemake’s surface.

Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation ...

Dwarf planet 2023 KQ14, Ammonite, has a stable orbit that challenges the hypothesis of the mysterious Planet Nine.

"It shows that Makemake is not an inactive remnant of the outer solar system, but a dynamic body where methane ice is still ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by the vote of the International Astronomical Union, which declared that Pluto, considered the ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

A planetary conjunction is an astronomical event in which at least two planets – sometimes more – appear to our vantage from Earth to be close together in the sky. Both Venus and Jupiter are making ...

This brings us to the complexity of NASA's announcement. "Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by ...

FBI boss Kash Patel gave New Zealand officials 3D-printed guns illegal to possess under local laws Rory McIlroy blasts ...

From meteor showers to visible nebulas, August is primed to be an action-packed month for stargazers in the United States. And one of the highlights of the month? The impending meet-up of Jupiter and ...