Astronomers have detected the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being devoured by a white dwarf ...

In our nearby stellar neighborhood, a burned-out star is snacking on a fragment of a Pluto-like object. With its unique ultraviolet capability, only NASA's Hubble Space Telescope could identify that ...

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

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

“This milestone represents decades of cosmic exploration driven by NASA space telescopes — exploration that has completely changed the way humanity views the night sky,” Shawn Domagal-Goldman, acting ...

Dwarf planet Makemake may not be as inactive as astronomers believed, as per recent readings by JWST Researchers have ...

For years, astronomers believed that Makemake, one of the brightest icy bodies beyond Neptune, was a frozen relic of the ...

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