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 ...

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

A new dwarf planet, discovered beyond Neptune and described as Pluto's 'cousin,' could void the hypothesis of a Planet X in ...

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 ...

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

Astronomers have found a new minor planet beyond Pluto. This object, named 2017 OF201, is quite large. It orbits far from the ...

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 ...

Elon Musk, under the username "Kekius Maximus," has joined William Shatner in advocating for Pluto's reclassification as a ...

The lone planet confirmed to be in the system is squeezed in between the two, orbiting at a distance similar to Earth's distance from the Sun. And, as an added bonus, the planet is orbiting backward ...

A planet circling at a sharp 90-degree angle to the orbits of its two host stars has now been confirmed. This discovery challenges long-standing ideas about how planets form and orbit in the cosmos.

Researchers say they found a curious dot on infrared images taken 23 years apart that seems to be moving in a manner consistent with a large, distant planet.