A junior at San Elizario Early College High School has brought national recognition to her hometown after competing against the nation’s most talented students in ...

Methane gas may signal an atmosphere or geological activity on a distant dwarf planet located at the outer edge of the Solar System. A research team led by the Southwest Research Institute has ...

Astronomers have discovered methane gas on the distant dwarf planet Makemake using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) for the first time. This finding overturns the previous belief that Makemake is ...

The methane emission is explained by solar-excited fluorescence. Sunlight interacts with methane molecules, causing them to ...