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 ...

Scientists have detected methane gas glowing faintly above Makemake, an icy dwarf planet smaller and farther than Pluto in space. Until now, Pluto was the only object that far out in the solar system ...

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What can the presence of methane on a dwarf planet that orbits farther out than Pluto teach scientists about the formation and evolution of planetary bodies? This is what a recent study accepted by ...

Scientists may have discovered a dwarf planet far beyond Neptune — an unearthing that may disprove a longstanding theory about the possibility of a giant ninth planet. The dwarf planet's existence ...

Ammonite was discovered using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, with follow-up confirmation from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. Its orbit and size officially qualify it as a distant dwarf planet.

Scientists with the Institute for Advanced Study’s School of Natural Sciences say they have found a possible dwarf planet that they have dubbed an "extreme cousin" of Pluto. They say that the possible ...