Beaker had to put up with a lot of laboratory mishaps during his time on The Muppet Show, so it's nice he's been enshrined on Mars, far away from any experiments that could go awry. 59 Weird ...

But, if nothing else, the formation's discovery can be taken as an overdue honor for Earth's most-abused Muppet. As a lab assistant to Dr. Bunsen Honeydew of Muppet Labs, Beaker has been blinded ...

On the television show, Beaker, the mumbling lab assistant with the big orange nose, often was the butt of jokes. He’s the one who held exploding chemistry experiments and was shot out of cannons.

At tonight's exciting The Game Awards, the renowned Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and his assistant Beaker took a break from Muppet Labs to announce the winner for Games for Impact.

While we don’t have an exact release date just yet, we do know that The Beaker Girls will air later this year on CBBC and BBC iPlayer. We’ll update you as soon as the date is announced.