Scientists have detected methane gas on the dwarf planet Makemake, indicating that the distant body is a dynamic icy world. The discovery was made by a team led by the Southwest Research Institute ...

At first glance, this frozen lake looks like it's full of neatly stacked UFOs hovering beneath the ice. What you're actually seeing is methane gas released by bacteria as they decompose organic matter ...

More than 2 billion kilometers farther from the sun than Pluto, a frigid world named Makemake sports the most distant gas ever seen in our solar system, new observations reveal. “By surprise, we found ...

The image is surreal: a frozen lake, a scientist kneeling on the ice, and then a sheet of flame racing across the surface as trapped gas turns the air itself into fuel. What looks like a stunt is in ...

New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure if the gas is contained within a wispy atmosphere or being ejected into ...