Astronomers used three telescopes at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile to observe the dwarf planet Makemake as it drifted in front of a distant star and blocked its light. The new view ...

Artist’s impression of the surface of the dwarf planet Makemake (Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org)) Astronomers have used three telescopes at ESO’s observatories in Chile to observe ...

This Hubble image reveals the first moon ever discovered around the dwarf planet Makemake. The tiny satellite, located just above Makemake in this image, is barely visible because it is almost lost in ...

Within the Kuiper Belt—that ring of ices and volatile material beyond the orbit of Neptune—are all but one of the known dwarf planets in the solar system. Pluto is the largest of that class of planet, ...

The International Astronomical Union recently recognized Makemake as a dwarf planet and classified it as a plutoid. Makemake, the celestial body, was named after Makemake, the bird-man god of Easter ...

Dwarf Planets Learn more about Pluto and other dwarf planets, which are defined as objects that orbit the Sun and are nearly round, but that have not been able to clear their orbit of debris. The ...

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