The object’s aphelion—the farthest point on the orbit from the sun—is more than 1,600 times that of Earth’s orbit,” Institute ...

A potential new dwarf planet has been discovered in the outer reaches of the solar system, and its existence poses the ...

As it orbits the sun once every 25,000 years, the celestial body 2017 OF201 travels beyond the Kuiper Belt into a region ...

They said: ‘The discovery of 2017 OF201 is significant because it’s found in a region of the Solar System thought to be empty ...

The small world was found during a search for the hypothetical Planet Nine, and astronomers say the next time it will reach ...

There’s a new object in the distant reaches of our solar system, and it might just offer clues to a long-standing cosmic ...

Thank whoever decided to make the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey public for this discovery A trio of scientists have ...

A team of astronomers believe they may have discovered a new dwarf planet—just like Pluto—on the edge of our solar system.

The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center, which catalogs new moons and other small bodies in the solar ...

The newly discovered object, named 2017 OF201, has a 25,000-year orbit and is believed to be a large contender for dwarf ...

At the very edge of our solar system, beyond the grasp of Neptune and even past the icy sprawl of Pluto’s domain, a new ...

There’s a new frozen oddball orbiting the Sun, and it’s not your average space rock. It’s a planet—a minor one, to be ...