For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

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

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

For the unversed, "Planet Nine" is a hypothetical planet which is reportedly larger than Earth that is thought to orbit ...

A possible new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of our solar system, so far-flung that it takes around 25,000 ...

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

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

Astronomers have discovered a mysterious dwarf planet, 2017 OF201, far beyond Pluto. This discovery challenges existing ...

A team of astronomers believe they may have discovered a new dwarf planet—just like Pluto—on the edge of our solar system. The object—which orbits out beyond Neptune—has been named "2017 OF201" by the ...

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