That's because 80 billion lightyears from Earth, three cosmic beasts are devouring stars ten times the size of the sun. The ...

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.

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

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

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

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

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The discovery challenges the Planet Nine hypothesis, which suggests a massive, unseen planet is influencing the orbits of distant TNOs. While most extreme TNOs show a clustered pattern that supports ...

OF201 spends only 1% of its orbital time close enough to us to be detectable. The presence of this single object suggests ...

OF201 is incredibly lightweight on a cosmic scale. Scientists estimate its mass is about 20,000 times less than Earth’s and ...