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This dwarf planet has gas: Makemake’s methane surprises scientists

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected methane gas on the dwarf planet Makemake, indicating that the distant body is a dynamic icy world.

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

"'Oumuamua is in a different category of object. It's much harder to find, but there are a lot more of them."

Even if life never took hold on Ceres, the discovery could help broaden the range of environments that could potentially be habitable.

Pluto isn't the only dwarf planet residing in our solar system. Try your hand at naming the others!

A newly found object could be a dwarf planet that contradicts the Planet Nine hypothesis.

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to solar system dwarf planet Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

As dwarf planets transition from being individual curiosities to statistical aggregates, they offer astronomers a better understanding of the solar system. The post Dwarf Planets Aren’t Big News, Because Astronomy Is Doing a Great Job appeared first on WIRED.

Thanks to the Kepler space telescope and the Herschel observatory, scientists finally have enough data to get inspired. The post Give Dwarf Planet 2007 OR10 the Real Name It Deserves Already appeared first on WIRED.