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

A newly identified dwarf planet, named 2017 OF201, has been discovered in the distant outer reaches of the solar system.

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

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

Scientists hunting for the hypothetical Planet Nine have discovered a potential new dwarf planet, 2017 OF201, in the outer ...

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

The object is about 700 kilometres wide and lies nearly three times farther from Earth than Neptune. Its highly elongated ...

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 ...

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As explained in a pre-press paper [PDF] titled “Discovery of a dwarf planet candidate in an extremely wide orbit: 2017 OF201” ...

U.S. astronomers hunting for "Planet Nine" have instead stumbled on what appears to be a new dwarf planet in the solar system ...

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