A lone body, making one passage around the Sun for every ten by Neptune, is rewriting the rules of planetary dynamics in the outermost reaches of our solar system. The discovery of 2020 VN40 a ...

In the dark, icy outskirts of our solar system—far beyond Neptune's orbit—astronomers have discovered a cosmic oddball that ...

Astronomers have discovered an object at the edge of the solar system that is locked in a strange rhythmic dance with the ice ...

A team of astronomers discovered a strange object in the outer solar system that is in a resonant orbit with Neptune.

An icy object in perfect sync with Neptune reveals new details about planetary migration and unseen bodies far beyond the Kuiper Belt.

Astronomers have discovered a bizarre object in the outer solar system, 2020 VN40, that dances to Neptune’s gravitational beat in a never-before-seen rhythm. It’s the first of its kind, orbiting the ...

Harvard & Smithsonian have discovered a rare trans-Neptunian object, 2020 VN40, orbiting in perfect sync with Neptune.

In a groundbreaking discoverypublished in The Planetary Science Journal, a team of astronomers led by the Center for ...

Astronomers have found that a weird space rock at the edge of the solar system is locked in a rhythmic dance with Neptune. The object, designated 2020 VN40, is part of a family of distant solar ...

This object is the first confirmed body that orbits the sun once for every ten orbits Neptune completes.

What makes 2020 VN40 even more interesting is how it moves compared to Neptune. Most objects with a simple ratio of the duration of their orbit compared to the duration of Neptune's orbit always ...