The findings, which were confirmed by the International ... A team of scientists spotted it while poring through archival data from the Blanco telescope in Chile and the Canada-France-Hawaii ...

Astronomers have discovered a mysterious dwarf planet, 2017 OF201, far beyond Pluto. This discovery challenges existing ...

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

Astronomers announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet, provisionally named 2017 OF201, located in the remote outskirts of ...

They said: ‘The discovery of 2017 OF201 is significant because it’s found in a region of the Solar System thought to be empty ...

A new member of the solar system has been detected, the second-largest of its kind, suggesting there may be more like it ...

A spiral-shaped structure in the Oort Cloud, long thought to be a featureless shell of icy debris, has been revealed by ...

Scientists believe such an extreme orbit means the object was pushed and pulled by the gravity of giant planets like Jupiter ...

The small world was found during a search for the hypothetical Planet Nine, and astronomers say the next time it will reach ...

The findings were not anticipated, and only possible because of the Inouye Solar Telescope's unprecedented abilities. The team used the Inouye's Visible Broadband Imager (VBI) instrument operating ...