The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...

The newly discovered world — a "sednoid" — challenges what planetary scientists thought they knew about the edge of the solar ...

A newly discovered dwarf planet called 'Ammonite' (2023 KQ14) has been spotted in the outer solar system, and it could be ...

Every once in a while, space gives us something totally unexpected. Well this time, the solar system is surprising us with a ...

Astronomers have discovered a "fossil" world lying in the outskirts of the solar system, according to new research.

Would one frozen world, just visible on the rim of the Sun’s kingdom, turn decades of speculation on the concealed layout of ...

A newly found icy object, Ammonite, may be a 4-billion-year-old fossil from the Solar System’s edge—and it’s casting doubt on ...

Typically, telescopes are synonymous with bringing far-off objects close, but the newest member of the solar system was ...

In 2003, NASA-funded researchers spotted what was then the most distant object discovered in our Solar System. The dwarf ...

"It is possible that a planet once existed in the solar system but was later ejected, causing the unusual orbits we see today ...

The discovery was made by astronomers using the Subaru Telescope, which is situated atop a dormant volcano in Hawaii.

Astronomers discover Ammonite, a rare icy object beyond Pluto, challenging Planet Nine theory and offering clues to the solar ...