In its youth, the dwarf planet Ceres may have brewed a chemical banquet beneath its icy crust.

New research based on data from NASA’s Dawn mission suggests the dwarf planet Ceres may have once possessed a deep, ...

New research from NASA has found that the dwarf planet Ceres may be another place to look for evidence of primitive life in our solar system.

The methane emission is explained by solar-excited fluorescence. Sunlight interacts with methane molecules, causing them to ...

The lead author, Sylvia Protopapa, a chief scientist at the Southwest Research Institute (SWRI), explained that methane dominates Makemake's frozen surface and is now also found in the gas phase above ...

Makemake is about 890 miles wide, roughly two-thirds the size of Pluto. Early observations indicated it had almost no atmosphere—essentially just a little air, if any. However, Webb's powerful ...

Webb uncovers methane on Makemake, showing the icy dwarf planet is more active than once thought - just like Pluto.

"The profile of the occultation was most consistent with it being a new satellite — a new moon — going around Quaoar." ...

Though no direct evidence of life has been found, models suggest Ceres had hot water shooting into its underground oceans ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led team has reported the first detection of gas on the distant dwarf planet Makemake, using ...

Did the subsurface ocean on dwarf planet ceres once fuel potential habitability? This is what a recent study published in ...