Researchers found the object named 2017 OF201 while searching for "Planet Nine" - a hypothetical planet thought to exist ...

NASA’s most recent photos of Pluto, captured by the New Horizons spacecraft, have revealed some of the most intriguing and ...

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.

James Webb Space Telescope observations suggest Pluto’s atmosphere is unlike any other in the solar system, confirming a 2017 ...

It had not been thought possible that such tiny, weak stars could provide the conditions needed to form and host huge planets.

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Thanks to the powerful vision of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists have just confirmed something truly ...

The first observations of Pluto by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal dramatic phenomena on its surface, like ...

The TNO, which are described as minor planets that orbit the sun at a greater distance than Neptune, were found on the edge ...

Scientists have identified an object about 435 miles (700 km) wide inhabiting the frigid outer reaches of our solar system that might qualify as a dwarf planet, spotting it as it travels on a highly ...

Cheng discovered the object as part of an ongoing research project to identify TNOs and possible new planets in the outer ...

The new object is one of the most distant visible objects in our solar system. Astronomers have indeed discovered a potential new dwarf planet in the outer reaches of our solar system, far beyond ...