Of all the recently discovered Dwarf Planets, this was the one that really got me wondering what the astronomers were on when they named it. Generally, an object gets named in one of two ways: One– a ...

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. They spotted it orbiting around the distant dwarf ...

Dwarf planet Makemake is about two thirds of the size of Pluto, and travels around the Sun in a distant path that lies beyond that of Pluto but closer to the Sun than Eris, the most massive known ...

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 ...

Well now, this is very cool: Astronomers have just announced that Makemake has a moon! Makemake (pronounced MAH-kay-mah-kay; it’s named after a Rapa Nui god who created humanity) is a Kuiper Belt ...

The dwarf planet Makemake has some company out in the cold, dark depths of the outer solar system. Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a moon orbiting Makemake, which is ...

The Hubble telescope has spotted a shadowy moon with a charcoal black surface orbiting the dwarf planet Makemake. Astronomers first observed Makemake in 2005, but since it's the second brightest icy ...

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 ...

Deep into the Kuiper Belt, the second brightest dwarf planet named after a deity of the Rana Nui people, completes its rotation every 7.77 hours, claiming its place in the vast outer space. Makemake - ...

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