When astronomers found a large world farther out than Pluto, it became one of the final nails in the coffin of our ninth ...

Using Webb data taken from August 2022 for Eris and January 2023 for Makemake ... which isn't unexpected - Pluto has methane ices on its surface. But the presence of deuterium, an isotope of ...

I have been working with my research advisor, Leslie Young (Southwest Research Institute), on surface spectra of Pluto, Charon, and Triton. Upcoming and ongoing work includes reduction of Keck/OSIRIS ...

"Hot cores could also point to potential sources of liquid water beneath their icy surface," said Glein, raising the possibility that Eris and Makemake could contain possibly habitable oceans.