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.

Scientists hunting for Planet Nine, an elusive planetary body that could change our understanding of the solar system, have ...

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

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

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

A newly detected planet beyond Pluto is not just expanding our understanding of the Solar System, it might be quietly rewriting it. Astronomers from the University of Taiwan recen ...

As a result of the International Astronomical Union’s 2006 demotion of Pluto from planet to dwarf planet, our solar system ...

Discovery of 2017OF201, a large trans-Neptune Object, challenges previous beliefs about the Kuiper Belt and hints at the ...

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

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

Less than 1% of this dwarf planet candidate's orbit is close enough to detect, which means astronomers are lucky to have ...

The object, known as 2017 OF201, was found by researchers at the Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University who were searching for “Planet Nine,” a hypothetical planet larger than ...