"Makemake is one of the largest and brightest icy worlds beyond Neptune, and its surface is dominated by frozen methane," ...

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

How do you go looking for life on a planet 40 light-years from Earth? For astronomers, the solution starts with light itself ...

Astronomers are researching an Earth-like exoplanet that could contain water, according to NASA. The exoplanet, named ...

Located at a relatively close distance of 41 light years from Earth, the Trappist-1 system has attracted significant ...

Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e may contain an atmosphere and liquid water, NASA scientists said. Research into the exoplanet is ...

One of the worlds in the TRAPPIST-1 system, a mere 40 light-years away, just might be clad in a life-supporting atmosphere.

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

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

Scientists have discovered a "greedy" white dwarf star that is “going thermonuclear” as it devours its twin at an ...

A ravenous white dwarf caught in a feeding frenzy could soon erupt in a nova, dazzling skywatchers with a rare celestial show ...