Astronomers have announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet in our solar system, named 2017 OF201. Located far beyond ...

The unusual orbit of a possible dwarf planet, known as 2017 OF201, makes it less likely that our solar system contains a ...

A small team led by Sihao Cheng, Martin A. and Helen Chooljian Member in the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Natural ...

At the very edge of our solar system, beyond the grasp of Neptune and even past the icy sprawl of Pluto’s domain, a new ...

There’s a new frozen oddball orbiting the Sun, and it’s not your average space rock. It’s a planet—a minor one, to be ...

On May 21, the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of 2017 OF 201, which, because ...

In the cold, distant reaches of the Solar System, far beyond Pluto, astronomers have just identified what could be a new ...

T he Solar System has just gotten a new official member. Currently, with the name of 2017 OF 201, this is a trans-Neptunian ...

WD 1856+534b—a freezing world with a surface temperature of -125 degrees Fahrenheit—exists where planets are normally scoured ...

After two decades of debate, research confirms that an odd binary star system has an equally odd planetary companion ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new giant exoplanet around an M-dwarf star (GEMS). The ...

A cloud of collapsing gas created our Sun, the first thing to form in our solar system. This happened about 4½ billion years ...