The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been busy, and honestly, it’s like getting a whole new set of eyes on the universe.

I was just thinking of that stupid song, ‘Seasons in the Sun.’ You know, ‘we had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun.’ Good grief, I should ...

Scientists armed with the immense observing power of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have detected faint traces of fluorescent flatulence leaking out from the dwarf planet Makemake, which lurks ...

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 ...

Makemake, found in 2005, is one of the five officially classified dwarf planets in the solar system, in addition to Pluto, Haumea, Eris, and Ceres. It is located in the Kuiper Belt, a region that is ...

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 ...

Hubble Spots White Dwarf Devouring Icy Pluto-Like Planet 260 Light-Years Away Hubble observations show a white dwarf star shredding and accreting a volatile-rich, Pluto-like body 260 light-years away.

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 ...

Earth is the only planet in our solar system with a single moon, making it a rare phenomenon for a planet of its kind. While many other objects in the solar system have single moons, including some ...

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 ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope detected material from a Pluto-like body spiraling into a white dwarf star 260 light-years away from Earth. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Tim Pyle illustration For the ...

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 ...