They may be dwarf planets, but they’re not dead planets.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has provided scientists with evidence of geothermal activity deep within two far-out dwarf planets, Eris and Makemake.
“We see some interesting signs of hot times in cool places,” Christopher Glein, an expert in planetary geochemistry at the Southwest Research Institute, said this week in a news release. Glein is the lead author of a study analyzing the JWST findings that was recently published by the journal Icarus.