This artist's concept shows the distant dwarf planet Makemake and its newly discovered moon. Makemake and its moon, nicknamed MK2, are more than 50 times farther away than Earth is from the sun. NASA, ...

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 found a previously unseen moon orbiting Makemake, a tiny dwarf planet on the outskirts of the solar system. This marks the first time a moon has been spotted around the little world, ...

Makemake’s moon — nicknamed MK2 — is very dark, 1,300 times fainter than the dwarf planet. A nearly edge-on orbital configuration helped it evade detection, placing it deep within the glare of the icy ...

A small, dark moon orbits Makemake, the second brightest icy dwarf planet after Pluto, in the Kuiper Belt in this undated photo made by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. (NASA) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — ...

Orbiting a tiny planet at the far reaches of our solar system is an even tinier, pitch-black moon, NASA’s Hubble telescope has revealed. The moon – nicknamed MK2 – orbits Makemake, the second ...

A lot of people were pretty upset when Pluto got its big demotion. And we get it. It's nice to have some consistency in a chaotic universe. But it's time to put that elementary-school nostalgia away ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Chalk up a moon for the icy dwarf planet Makemake. The Hubble Space Telescope has detected a tiny, dark moon circling the dwarf planet on the frozen fringes of our solar ...

Chalk up a moon for the icy dwarf planet Makemake. The Hubble Space Telescope has detected a tiny, dark moon circling the dwarf planet on the frozen fringes of our solar system. On Tuesday, scientists ...