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 ...
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 50 times further from the Sun than Earth, the tiny dwarf planet Makemake is one of the last places you'd expect to find an intact gaseous atmosphere. Not only is it incredibly cold, being ...
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 ...