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 ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have discovered a new moon in our solar system, orbiting a distant dwarf planet called Makemake. The tiny moon is estimated to be only about 100 miles ...

Peering to the outskirts of our solar system, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a small, dark moon orbiting Makemake, the second brightest icy dwarf planet after Pluto in the Kuiper Belt. 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, ...

At the very edge of the Solar System, Hubble has spotted a tiny pitch-black moon orbiting the small icy dwarf planet Makemake. Makemake, named after a creation deity of the Rapa Nui people of Easter ...

Scientists have discovered an elusive, dark moon orbiting Makemake, one of the 'big four' dwarf planets populating the Kuiper Belt region at the edge of our solar system. A Southwest Research ...

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 ...

Only a smidge bigger than the moon, a newfound white dwarf is the smallest of its kind known. The white dwarf, a type of remnant left behind when certain stars peter out, has a radius of about 2,100 ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a coal-black moon orbiting a shiny red dwarf planet known as Makemake in the outer reaches of the solar system. The newly discovered moon is estimated to be 100 ...

Another dwarf planet at the edge of the Solar System has been found to have a small companion moon. The world, named 2007 OR10, is the third largest dwarf planet that we know about — around 955 miles ...

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 ...