Makemake[g] (minor-planet designation: 136472 Makemake) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a disk of icy bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the fourth largest trans-Neptunian object and the …

Apr 24, 2025 · Dwarf planet Makemake is a member of a group of objects that orbit in a disc-like zone beyond the orbit of Neptune called the Kuiper Belt. This distant realm is populated with thousands of …

Since Makemake has a diameter of more than 1,400 km (900 miles), it is large enough for gravity to have made its shape round, and thus in 2008 it was designated as a dwarf planet as well as a …

Sep 24, 2025 · 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.

Sep 28, 2025 · Makemake is one of the largest and brightest worlds beyond Neptune, and becomes only the second trans-Neptunian object, after Pluto, found to have a confirmed presence of gas.

Sep 13, 2025 · For a dwarf planet once pegged as a quiet, frozen leftover, Makemake is suddenly looking lively – and that’s good news. It means the outer solar system is not just a museum of icy …

Makemake, formally designated (136472) Makemake, is the third-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System and one of the two largest Kuiper belt objects (KBO) in the classical KBO population.

Oct 19, 2023 · Makemake is a dwarf planet located in the transneptunian region of the Kuiper Belt. It is an icy planet which is 1/9th of the size of Earth. It gets very cold on Makemake, due to its great …

Currently there are only five dwarf planets confirmed and recognised by the IAU: Pluto, Ceres, Eris, Haumea and Makemake.

After Eris and Pluto, Makemake is the third largest known dwarf planet. Along with fellow dwarf planets Pluto and Haumea, Makemake is located in the Kuiper Belt, a region outside the orbit of Neptune.