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The dwarf planet Makemake, which chills out in the deep freeze of the outer Solar System, might be home to an ice volcano 1. Makemake is one of many icy worlds that orbit the Sun past Neptune. It ...

On a small dwarf planet called Makemake, astronomers have seen signs of surprising temperature changes. These could indicate that the tiny world, which is about 45 times further from the sun than ...

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Makemake, with a radius about one ninth of Earth’s, is almost 50 times as far away from the sun as our own planet. Eris, a little smaller than Earth’s moon, is about 70 times further from the ...

Back to Article List Distant worlds Eris and Makemake unveil surprisingly active natures to the world’s largest space telescope This could mean a lot of things, up to and including oceans inside.

While Eris is roughly the same size as Pluto and Makemake is about the same size as Pluto’s moon, Charon, both dwarf planets are far beyond even Pluto’s icy corner of the Solar System.

But in the new study, which was uploaded Feb. 10 to the preprint server arXiv, researchers took a closer look at chemical spectra from two other dwarf planets, Eris and Makemake, views of which ...

The dwarf planets in question, Eris and Makemake, are both found in the Kuiper Belt past Neptune's orbit and are far from the Sun's warmth, similar to fellow dwarf planet Pluto.

Makemake is the third-largest known dwarf planet in our solar system, after Pluto and Eris, with a diameter of 888 miles across. It takes about 309 years to orbit the sun.