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Today, I must share a big news from the field of astronomy! The Webb Telescope has recently made a significant discovery by ...
"Makemake is one of the largest and brightest icy worlds beyond Neptune, and its surface is dominated by frozen methane," ...
Pluto may have been demoted to non-planet status, but it still commands a court of five moons, as is fitting for the king of ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered that a hazy sky over frozen Pluto is helping to cool the dwarf planet's atmosphere, while at the same time giving methane and other organic ...
Two of Pluto's midsize moons may be made of the guts of its largest moon, Charon, new research suggests.
Webb uncovers methane on Makemake, showing the icy dwarf planet is more active than once thought - just like Pluto.
Pluto might be small and distant, but it keeps surprising scientists. After the New Horizons spacecraft zipped past it in 2015, we got our first real look at its icy landscape and unexpectedly active ...
Oumuamua, the first interstellar object detected in 2017, is most likely a fragment of a Pluto-like body. Scientists believe it was flung out of the solar system billions of years ago during its ...
The methane emission is explained by solar-excited fluorescence. Sunlight interacts with methane molecules, causing them to ...
A new trans-Neptunian object, 2017 OF201, has been found with a vast orbit and potential dwarf planet size. The finding hints ...
"The profile of the occultation was most consistent with it being a new satellite — a new moon — going around Quaoar." ...
A Southwest Research Institute-led team has reported the first detection of gas on the distant dwarf planet Makemake, using ...