Organic molecules don’t mean life. And mysterious methane and rings in the Kuiper Belt.

Organic molecules don’t mean life. And mysterious methane and rings in the Kuiper Belt. 

“An artist’s impression of plumes erupting onto the surface of Enceladus. Its fellow moon Titan is seen in the sky, and the distant Sun beyond. Credit: ESA/Science Office”

Saturn’s moon Enceladus has long dazzled scientists with its icy plumes that spew water and mysterious organic molecules into space, fueling hopes of a habitable ocean beneath. But new experiments suggest the story may be more complicated.”

“Researchers found that radiation bombarding Enceladus’s frozen surface could be producing many of the same organics detected in the plumes — meaning they might not come from the hidden ocean at all. This twist forces scientists to rethink how we interpret signs of habitability on icy moons.” (The Shocking Twist in the Search for Life on Saturn’s Icy Moon)

“Electron microscopy revealed chain structures resembling living organisms in meteorite fragment ALH84001” (Wikipedia, Allan Hills 84001). If those remnants are bacteria, they can be from Earth. There is a possibility that those bacteria. If they are bacteria. that came from Antarctic ice, and they traveled to the meteorite. Because its heat “called” those bacteria. Anyway, that meteorite is polluted. The temperature in Antarctica is not so low that it could keep that meteorite sterile. 

“An image of the rock named “Cheyava Falls” in the “Bright Angel formation” in Jezero crater, Mars collected by the WATSON camera onboard the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. The image shows a rust-colored, organic matter bearing sedimentary mudstone sandwiched between bright white layers of another composition. The small dark blue/green to black colored nodules and ring-shaped reaction fronts that have dark rims, and bleached interiors are proposed to be potential biosignatures. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS” (ScitechDaily, Strange Mars Mudstones May Hold the Strongest Clues Yet of Ancient Life)

“NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered mysterious mudstones in Mars’ Jezero Crater that contain organic carbon and strange mineral textures.” (ScitechDaily, Strange Mars Mudstones May Hold the Strongest Clues Yet of Ancient Life)

“These features, possibly shaped by redox reactions similar to those fueled by microbes on Earth, may represent potential biosignatures.” (ScitechDaily, Strange Mars Mudstones May Hold the Strongest Clues Yet of Ancient Life)

Confirmed life in our solar system is limited to planet Earth. All other harbors for life are hypothetical. It’s possible that there have been some kind of lifeforms on Mars, but before there is any laboratory analysis about samples brought from Mars, nothing is more uncertain than uncertain. NASA says that there is “strong evidence” that some primitive lifeforms, like prokaryotic bacteria, could have lived on Mars a long time ago. 

Confirmation about that thing can be very difficult. If there have been some bacteria on Mars, the thin atmosphere that lets UV-radiation reach the Mars surface can destroy all genetic material. From those bacteria.  Those remnants would be hollows in stones. Without DNA or RNA, it is impossible to confirm that some form is from bacteria. 

There are strange forms in some meteorites, but the problem is that those meteorites, including Allan Hills 84001 from Antarctica, are polluted. That means those primitive bacterial fossils, if they are bacterial fossils, can be from Earth. There have also been organic materials in Saturn's Enceladus moons' icy geysers. There is a possibility that these organic materials are formed due to sunlight. 

Maybe Saturn will pull ions to Enceladus, and that can cause the formation of those organic compounds. But as we know, there is a possibility that there can be lifeforms in that icy world. Otherwise, Organic molecules can form. Because of some kind of chemical reactions that have no biological origin. 

“An SwRI-led team used Webb telescope observations (white) to detect methane gas on the distant dwarf planet Makemake. Sharp emission peaks near 3.3 microns reveal methane in the gas phase above Makemake’s surface. A continuum model (cyan) is overlaid for comparison; the gas emission peaks are identified where the observed spectrum rises above the continuum. An artistic rendering of Makemake’s surface is shown in the background. Credit: Courtesy of S. Protopapa, I. Wong/SwRI/STScI/NASA/ESA/CSA” (ScitechDaily, Webb Telescope Detects Gas on Distant Dwarf Planet Makemake for the First Time)

Telescopes noticed gas on the dwarf planet Makemake. 

The surprise was that the gas JWST detected is methane. That means there are some chemical reactions on those distant worlds. Those dwarf planets like Makemake are so far away that they cannot get methane from places like Titan. And that is one of the most interesting things in the universe. There is a possibility that weak energy from the distant sun, along with some ions, can have so much energy that. It can push carbon and hydrogen together in a very low-energy but stable environment. 

 Makemake is far away from Earth in the Kuiper Belt. That dwarf planet is one of the coldest places in our solar system. That’s why existing gas is a surprise. But conditions in the Kuiper Belt are incredibly stable. Makemake can pull gases from space around it. And that thing makes it possible that those dwarf planets have a thin atmosphere. Those objects called trans-Neptunian objects TNOs are so far away from the sun that the solar wind has no force to blow those atmospheres away. And that’s why some dwarf planets like Makemake can have atmospheres. 

“Artist's impression of Quaoar with its ring and its moon Weywot” (Wikipedia, Quaoar)

“Quaoar compared to the Earth and the Moon” (Wikipedia, Quaoar)

Researchers noticed that the dwarf planet Quaoar may have another moon or some unknown ring system. Quaoar has a ring system and one known moon. That is an incredible thing, because that dwarf planet is very small. The ring system can form around that dwarf planet when its moon acts like Saturn’s and other gas planets’ rings. Shepherd moons that trap particles between them. 

The problem is that the shepherd moons are always on both sides of their ring. There is a possibility that Quaoar’s moon Weywot and its gravity can trap those particles between Quaoar and Weywot, but is that moon’s and Quaoar’s gravity so strong that they can trap those particles? 

But those rings are in the place where those planets’ Van Allen belts are. Shepherd moons from holes between rings. But the plasma ring. Around those gas giants is the thing that traps most of those particles. That means Quaoar must, or should have, some kind of magnetic field. 

That dwarf planet is mysterious. It's too small for internal nuclear reactions to form those plasma rings. Its moon seems very far away from that dwarf planet. And that is one of the most interesting things about that distant and mysterious object. 

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-discovery-moon-orbiting-mysterious-distant.html

https://scitechdaily.com/the-shocking-twist-in-the-search-for-life-on-saturns-icy-moon/

https://scitechdaily.com/space-mystery-unexpected-new-ring-system-discovered-in-our-own-solar-system/

https://scitechdaily.com/strange-mars-mudstones-may-hold-the-strongest-clues-yet-of-ancient-life/

https://scitechdaily.com/webb-telescope-detects-gas-on-distant-dwarf-planet-makemake-for-the-first-time/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Hills_84001

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaoar

A new mysterious object has been discovered at the edge of the solar system.

 A new mysterious object has been discovered at the edge of the solar system. 

“A composite image showing the five dwarf planets recognized by the International Astronomical Union, plus the newly discovered trans-Neptunian object 2017 OF201. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech; image of 2017 OF201: Sihao Cheng et al.” (ScitechDaily, Astronomers Discover Mysterious New World at Edge of the Solar System

The JWST telescope discovered a mysterious object, designated 2017 OF201, at the edge of the solar system. That object is one of the so-called trans-Neptunian objects, TNOs. That opens new paths to discover new planets and dwarf planets in our solar system. The 2017 OF201 is the dwarf planets. These are introduced in the image. Above this text. 

Most of those dwarf planets are found in the Kuiper Belt, and only Ceres is in the asteroid belt. That means there can be many dwarf planets hiding in the Kuiper Belt. And that is one of the most interesting questions about dwarf planets. Why are there no dwarf planets in the inner solar system? The dwarf planets are interesting because some of them might have formed as moons of planets. And maybe. Some dwarf planets have been part of larger planets. Those were destroyed in cosmic collisions. 

Most of those dwarf planets are in the Kuiper Belt. That raises the idea that maybe some of those small objects are from other solar systems. Maybe some of those small worlds have been some kind of rogue worlds that slipped away from some red dwarf system, or maybe some nova or supernova threw some of those dwarf planets out of their orbits. Or maybe those things were Uranus’s or Neptune’s moons that some cosmic catastrophe threw out from their orbit. 

The gravity effect that comes from some planets, or some kind of particle beam. Or asteroid impacts can cause an effect. Those small moons that are at a long distance from their planet just go out of their trajectories. The interesting detail in those dwarf planets is that Haumea. Which looks like an egg. It is larger than the ball-shaped Ceres. The shape of Haumea tells. that it has been fast-spinning when it formed. The fast spinning movement stretched that dwarf planet, or there must be some internal effect, like some kind of beam. that stretched that dwarf planet into shape as we see it. 

https://scitechdaily.com/astronomers-discover-mysterious-new-world-at-edge-of-the-solar-system/

The mysterious deep space fossil, a new member of our solar system, can rewrite the history of the solar system.

"A newly found icy object, Ammonite, may be a 4-billion-year-old fossil from the Solar System’s edge—and it’s casting doubt on the Planet Nine theory. (Artist’s concept.) Credit: SciTechDaily.com" (ScitechDaily, ‘Ammonite’: A Mysterious Deep Space Fossil That Could Rewrite Solar System History)

"A mysterious icy object discovered far beyond Pluto is rewriting what we thought we knew about the Solar System’s past." (ScitechDaily, ‘Ammonite’: A Mysterious Deep Space Fossil That Could Rewrite Solar System History)

“Nicknamed “Ammonite,” this ancient world has an orbit unlike any other, placing it in the ultra-rare class of “sednoids.” Its discovery, made by the Subaru Telescope and confirmed through years of orbital data, challenges theories about Planet Nine and hints at a possible planetary shakeup billions of years ago. With a stable orbit lasting over 4 billion years, Ammonite may be a cosmic fossil—a remnant of a chaotic era when invisible forces or even lost planets shaped the outskirts of our solar neighborhood.” (ScitechDaily, ‘Ammonite’: A Mysterious Deep Space Fossil That Could Rewrite Solar System History)

The mysterious object called “Ammonite” could make Planet 9 non-existent. The Ammonite dwarf planet is Sednoid. That means it's similar to Sedna. 

There is a possibility that this mysterious object would not exist if Planet 9 is real. And that makes the Planet 9 mystery more interesting than ever before. Planet 9 is the mysterious gravitational effect that causes anomalies in Neptune's trajectories. Planet 9 is also introduced as the reason for Neptune's largest moon, Triton, to be opposite the trajectory of other Neptune moons. 

The problem with all those theories is nobody has seen Planet 9 yet. Planet 9 remains a hypothesis. The mysterious gravitational effect remains, but that's all we see. Modern telescopes have found many objects from the Kuiper Belt. But none of them were large enough to cause anomalies in Neptune's trajectory. Sometimes Planet 9 is offered as an explanation for Uranus's X-ray flares and Triton icy geysers. 

There are many things that tell us that something strange happened in the past at the Kuiper Belt. The Ammonite and Eris are dwarf planets whose orbits are interesting. They are stretched, and they are not in line, and there is a possibility that some ancient planet that left the solar system can cause those strange trajectories. Maybe that strange object followed the parabolic trajectory and pulled those objects that you can see in that map to their trajectories. 

But that thing is only a hypothesis. There are models that Planet 9 was so far away from the solar system that some cosmic collision just pushed that planet away. The other model is that Planet 9 was some rogue planet, and the interesting question is this: could that object hang around somewhere between Proxima Centauri and the Sun? 

The Ammonite is a thing. That might explain many things about the past of the solar system. And there can be theories that the Ammonite is the moon, that the mysterious Planet 9 left behind it if it left the solar system a long time ago. 

But if Planet 9 is a primordial black hole, that changes the game forever. If  Planet 9 is a primordial black hole that lurks under the icy shell of some dwarf planet, that explains many things. Hypothetical primordial black holes mean that the thing that causes anomalies in Neptune's trajectory must not be big. So, could some of those already known dwarf planets be Planet 9? 

In some models, “Planet 9” is a small primordial black hole. That black hole could exist in the regular-looking asteroid or dwarf planet. In that model, the black hole can collect ice balls around it. Hollow ice shells can orbit that small black hole. 

The hypothetical primordial black hole is the planet-mass ultra-small black hole. The problem is nobody has seen that type of black hole yet. But if they exist, some known dwarf planets can be that hypothetical Planet 9. So, if that kind of black hole exists in the solar system, that means this thing could be the discovery for the next millennium. 

In some scenarios, "Planet 9" is an energy impulse that can form when antimatter hits the impact wave in the heliopause. That energy impulse can cause strong effects on Uranus's Neptune and the dwarf planet's trajectories. That is one of the things that might explain something about the mystery called Planet 9. 

https://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/en/news/AmmoniteJul2025/

https://gizmodo.com/astronomers-discover-potential-dwarf-planet-lurking-way-beyond-pluto-2000630151

https://www.livescience.com/uranus-x-ray-radiation-detected.html

https://www.sciencing.com/1914379/new-world-discovered-in-our-solar-system-ammonite/

https://scitechdaily.com/ammonite-a-mysterious-deep-space-fossil-that-could-rewrite-solar-system-history/

https://www.space.com/black-holes-solar-system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Nine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_KQ14

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedna_(dwarf_planet)

Water crystallization in low gravity and temperature can open new ways to model water.

"The Universe’s most abundant ice isn’t formless—it’s secretly laced with crystals. And that might change how we think about water, planets, and life itself. (Artist’s concept.) Credit: SciTechDaily.com

Scientists have uncovered a hidden structure inside the Universe’s most common ice—found on comets, moons, and interstellar dust—challenging decades of belief." (ScitechDaily, Tiny Crystals Hidden in Cosmic Ice Could Rewrite What We Know About Water and Life)

The new observations about the water crystallization can open new models for water and life in the universe. When water crystallizes at a very low temperature and under weak gravity it can form microcrystals. Those microcrystals are something that doesn’t form on Earth. The microcrystals can form a structure alone or with some liquid gas that makes it look like liquid. If there is liquid nitrogen or helium between those microcrystal bites that thing can cause a situation where those crystals can form the “icy quicksand”. 

That means those crystal ice bites behave like sand in quicksand and the liquid gas acts like water in quicksand. There is a possibility that the extremely small nanocrystals could form the liquid-looking structure on icy planets. Those new observations about water behavior open the road to making models about the lifeforms. Or, sharper saying the DNA, or mRNA controlled icy crystals can exist on some distant worlds. In those ultra-cold conditions, the DNA or RNA can make those crystals act like cells act in our planet. 

The image of Pluto from the New Horizons probe. The white structure near the pole seems to be some kind of geyser or “icy volcano”. That means Pluto's low gravity along with the Kharon moons' gravity effect and tidal forces can keep water from moving on that strange world. If there is liquid water on that dwarf planet. 

“In this image of Pluto’s surface, the red luminance corresponds to the infrared data acquired by the Ralph/MVIC instrument carried by New Horizons. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/ZLDoyle” (ScitechDaily, New Horizons Reveals Dunes Made of Tiny Grains of Solid Methane on Pluto)

That doesn’t mean. The undersurface ocean must cover the entire planet. There can be small “lakes” on that dwarf planet. Maybe most of the liquid is methane, nitrogen, and other gases. Those lakes that can hold water can be below the white cap near Pluto’s pole. 

The theory about quantum water is also interesting. 

On distant planets, water is at the minimum energy level. The hydrogen and oxygen atoms are in their maximum size. And those atoms form the Bose-Einstein condensate. There is a possibility that the weak gravity along with other effects can turn those water molecules straight and make them spin very fast. In that case, the water molecules that are very low can be unable to make bonds with the other water molecules. That means in the low temperature and low gravity it is possible that the water remains in a form that looks like liquid. 

This kind of liquid water is nothing that we see on Earth. This kind of phenomenon can be possible only in a low-pressure, lowest possible temperature, that is near 0K. And the third thing is the ultra-low gravity field. The low gravity field can keep water liquid far below zero. The thing that keeps water in liquid form is the whirls that move the water. 

If we think of dwarf planets like Pluto and Eris and their moons, their gravity is very low. And the other thing is that those objects are very thin. The third thing is that the gravitational effect of their moons like Kharon is stronger than on Earth. That can cause conditions where the whirls can keep the water liquid even in those extremely low temperatures. Tidal forces of those moons are more powerful because the dwarf planet's gravity is not very strong. 

https://scitechdaily.com/new-horizons-reveals-dunes-made-of-tiny-grains-of-solid-methane-on-pluto/

https://scitechdaily.com/tiny-crystals-hidden-in-cosmic-ice-could-rewrite-what-we-know-about-water-and-life/

Unexpected ring system found around the dwarf planet Quaoar.

Dwarf planet Quaoar is the gravitational center in its environment. The gravitational effect of that dwarf planet is minimal. But gravitation always acts the same way. So the same effect that forms a ring-system around giant planets forms the ring around dwarf planet Quaoar. 

The formation of the ring system depends on the Roche limit, the strength of gravitation, and the distance from the sun. Also, the gravitational effect of other planets and dwarf planets affects those rings. The requirement for forming the ring system is the solar wind's strength compared to the planet's or gravitational center's gravitation field's strength. 

The reason why Earth has no ring is that solar wind just blows those particles away. The reason why Quaoar has rings is that solar wind in that distance is so weak. Those particles will anchor around Quaoar. There is a possibility that almost all objects in the Kuiper belt have ring systems. 

The thing, that makes those ring systems interesting is that astronomers can use them to observe suddenly impacting energy waves. Those energy waves impact with those rings that are orbiting weak gravitational centers. And those energy impulses affect of trajectories of those rings. Professor Heikki Salo from the University of Oulu played a key role in that research. So congrats to Oulu. 

https://yle.fi/a/74-20016981

https://scitechdaily.com/space-mystery-unexpected-new-ring-system-discovered-in-our-own-solar-system/