Researchers believe that 2017 OF201’s highly eccentric orbit points to a chaotic origin, possibly caused by a gravitational ...

Astronomers have uncovered a distant celestial body that may be a new dwarf planet, orbiting the Sun from more than twice the distance of Pluto. Found by researchers at the Institute for Advanced ...

A potential new dwarf planet has been discovered in the outer reaches of the solar system, and its existence poses the ...

OF201, the object belongs to the same all-star family as Pluto: dwarf planets. Its diameter, roughly 435 miles (700 km), is ...

Earth has a newly-discovered neighbor ... sent back," he said. The new object could also challenge the hypothesis that there's a "Planet X" or "Planet Nine" beyond Pluto, with gravity affecting ...

A team of astronomers believe they may have discovered a new dwarf planet—just like Pluto—on the edge of our solar system.

Scientists may have discovered a dwarf planet far beyond Neptune — an unearthing that may disprove a longstanding theory ...

Almost 20 years after Pluto was infamously downgraded from its status as a planet, scientists now believe they have ...

A composite image comparing the relative sizes of our solar system's known dwarf planets, including the ... the same year Pluto was discovered. It's now twice as far away and rocketing off even ...

The new object is one of the most distant visible objects in our solar system. Astronomers have indeed discovered a potential new dwarf planet in the outer reaches of our solar system, far beyond ...

A new dwarf planet, temporarily named 2017 OF201, has been located in a distant orbit far beyond Pluto. The object ... University graduate students, found the new dwarf planet while searching ...

Astronomers have discovered a new small planet far from Pluto, expanding our understanding ... size of known dwarf planets and big asteroids like Ceres.Its orbit is extremely elongated, swinging ...