"It shows that Makemake is not an inactive remnant of the outer solar system, but a dynamic body where methane ice is still ...

Webb detects silane in a nearby brown dwarf, solving the mystery of the disappearance of silicon in the atmospheres of giant ...

Saturn, the jewel of the solar system, has returned to the night sky. The ringed planet rises in the east just as the sun ...

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For researchers at the University of Idaho, spotting a moon 6 miles wide orbiting Uranus, a staggering 1.8 billion miles from Earth, may actually be easier than finding a white cat in a snowstorm. A t ...

For researchers at the University of Idaho, spotting a moon 6 miles wide orbiting Uranus, a staggering 1.8 billion miles from Earth, may actually be easier than finding a white cat in a snowstorm. A ...

On a temporary scale, the rings are coming back, but in the (much) longer term they’re probably a beautiful but transient ...

Something strange is stirring in Saturn’s skies. Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted something entirely new in Saturn’s atmosphere: a string of dark, bead-like features high ...

New JWST observations of Saturn reveal bizarre bead-like auroras and a lopsided star-shaped pattern in the atmosphere.

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

Never-before-seen “dark beads” and other unique structures were observed in the atmosphere above the north pole of Saturn — stumping astronomers who say the “unexplained” phenomenon has “no analog” in ...