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Scientists say a new planetarium show about the Milky Way has helped them unlock one of the solar system’s many secrets.

The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center, which catalogs new moons and other small bodies in the solar ...

Astronomers have announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet in our solar system, named 2017 OF201. Located far beyond ...

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

Discovery of 2017OF201, a large trans-Neptune Object, challenges previous beliefs about the Kuiper Belt and hints at the ...

The discovery of 2017 OF201 is significant, as it challenges the hypothesis of Planet Nine, a hypothetical planet thought to exist in the outer Solar System.

Based on the newfound object's trajectory, the scientists estimate its last close pass to the sun was in 1930, the same year Pluto was discovered ... Study in Princeton, New Jersey, said in ...

A small team led by Sihao Cheng, Martin A. and Helen Chooljian Member in the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Natural Sciences, has discovered an extraordinary trans-Neptunian object (TNO), ...

The diameter of Pluto, meanwhile ... the object's exact size. Cheng discovered the object as part of an ongoing research project to identify TNOs and possible new planets in the outer solar ...