A recently discovered celestial body is rewriting our knowledge of the Kuiper Belt and maybe challenging the existence of the ...

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

Scientists had previously believed that no celestial bodies existed in the vast, empty section of space beyond Neptune.

So it got relegated from ‘actual planet’ (sort of like the Champion’s League) to the more modestly titled ’dwarf planet’ (The Conference). But, despite the downgrading, Pluto still had ... decider ...

The TNO is potentially large enough to qualify as a dwarf planet, the same category as the much more well-known Pluto. The new object is one of the most distant visible objects in our solar system ...

"Social media was flooded with memes and witty comments, some of which also highlighted that Pluto’s designation as a "dwarf planet" does not negate its planetary essence. One user insightfully ...

Image Credit: images of dwarf planets from ... similar to Pluto's orbit.” The discovery of this object will certainly cause issues in the hunt for Planet 9 – a hypothetical planet larger ...

The International Astronomical Union, which reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet in 2006, is the arbiter of such classifications. Andrea has written about NASA and the commercial space sector ...

Dwarf planets. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech; image of 2017 OF201: Sihao Cheng et al. That remarkable orbit earns the minor planet the label of an extreme trans-Neptunian object (ETNO), a subset of ...

Kirk to bend Trump’s ear toward Pluto. Getty Images The now-dwarf planet was first discovered in 1930 by Clyde W. Tombaugh, an Illinois native, at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.