Nasa has found a small, dark moon orbiting, the dwarf icy planet Makemake at the edge of the solar system. The new moon – nicknamed MK2, but given an unconfirmed official title of S/2015 (136472) 1 – ...

In case you needed any proof that we still have a huge amount to learn about space, astronomers just discovered a new moon in our own solar system. Source: NASA They spotted it orbiting around the ...

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 ...

More than 50 times further from the Sun than Earth, the tiny dwarf planet Makemake is one of the last places you'd expect to find an intact gaseous atmosphere. Not only is it incredibly cold, being ...

Astronomers used three telescopes at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile to observe the dwarf planet Makemake as it drifted in front of a distant star and blocked its light. The new view ...

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 ...

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