The small, faraway world we call Quaoar is pretty peculiar. It is egg-shaped, and it also possesses a moon and two rings. In particular, the rings are where no ring should be; Quaoar is clearly ...

Astronomers have discovered what they think may be another moon orbiting a distant dwarf planet called Quaoar. This small, icy, egg-shaped planet in the far reaches of our solar system, beyond Neptune ...

"The profile of the occultation was most consistent with it being a new satellite — a new moon — going around Quaoar." The odd dwarf planet Quaoar might have a brand-new moon. Observations of the tiny ...