For all the talk about life across the cosmos, Earth remains the only confirmed example. That single data point makes your ...

The Copernican Principle, named in honor of Nicolaus Copernicus (who proposed the heliocentric model of the universe), states ...

Phosphorus is one of six key elements necessary for life on Earth. When combined with hydrogen, phosphorus forms the molecule ...

New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure ...

JWST's detection of phosphine on a brown dwarf, also known as a "failed star," could have repercussions for the claimed ...

Using Pluto as an example, this celestial body, once considered the ninth planet, was redefined as a dwarf planet in 2006. Its average distance from the Sun is about 5.9 billion kilometers, a distance ...

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 ...

New research suggests that planets outside our solar system contain far less surface water than scientists once believed.

The first-time finding of appreciable amounts of phosphine in a brown dwarf suggests it may be too soon to use the molecule ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered the remains of a frozen, Pluto-like world being devoured by a ...

The methane gas may constitute a rarefied atmosphere, or it may come from erupting plumes on Makemake’s surface.

Astronomers have observed a white dwarf, a highly compact stellar ember, that appears to have gobbled up an icy world akin to dwarf planet Pluto, a finding with implications regarding the likelihood o ...