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 ...

The moon was nearly 21000 km away from the planet, 160 km in diameter The moon, nicknamed MK2, is 1300 times fainter than the dwarf planet A moon's discovery can give information on the dwarf planet ...

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 ...

In April 2011, Makemake – one of five dwarf planets in our Solar System – passed between Earth and a distant star. Using seven telescopes, an international team of astronomers observed the event, ...

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 ...

Led by Jose Luis Ortiz of the the Andalucian Institute of Astrophysics, the team observed that during the one-minute occultation, light emitting from the star quickly disappeared and reappeared. The ...

"It shows that Makemake is not an inactive remnant of the outer solar system, but a dynamic body where methane ice is still evolving." Scientists have detected methane gas on the dwarf planet Makemake ...

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 ...