The newly discovered world — a "sednoid" — challenges what planetary scientists thought they knew about the edge of the solar ...

The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...

Typically, telescopes are synonymous with bringing far-off objects close, but the newest member of the solar system was discovered using wide-field imaging. The Subaru Telescope has spotted a distant ...

Every once in a while, space gives us something totally unexpected. Well this time, the solar system is surprising us with a ...

Researchers just got a step closer to understanding the origins of our solar system, with the discovery of an object orbiting ...

In 2003, NASA-funded researchers spotted what was then the most distant object discovered in our Solar System. The dwarf ...

Learn more about a sednoid called Ammonite that has been detected in the outer reaches of the Solar System.

The Subaru Telescope has revealed a fourth member of the sednoids, a group of small bodies with peculiar orbits around the ...

Despite the powerful telescopes that modern astronomers have to work with, the distant reaches of the Solar System are still ...

"It is possible that a planet once existed in the solar system but was later ejected, causing the unusual orbits we see today ...

Would one frozen world, just visible on the rim of the Sun’s kingdom, turn decades of speculation on the concealed layout of ...