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 ...

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 – ...

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 ...