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A possible new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of our solar system, so far-flung that it takes around 25,000 ...
For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.
The object’s aphelion—the farthest point on the orbit from the sun—is more than 1,600 times that of Earth’s orbit,” Institute ...
For the unversed, "Planet Nine" is a hypothetical planet which is reportedly larger than Earth that is thought to orbit ...
As it orbits the sun once every 25,000 years, the celestial body 2017 OF201 travels beyond the Kuiper Belt into a region ...
The small world was found during a search for the hypothetical Planet Nine, and astronomers say the next time it will reach ...
There’s a new object in the distant reaches of our solar system, and it might just offer clues to a long-standing cosmic ...
A new dwarf planet, discovered beyond Neptune and described as Pluto's 'cousin,' could void the hypothesis of a Planet X in ...
Astronomers have found a new minor planet beyond Pluto. This object, named 2017 OF201, is quite large. It orbits far from the ...
Astronomers have announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet in our solar system, named 2017 OF201. Located far beyond ...
Researchers discovered a new trans-Neptunian object, 2017 OF201, potentially a dwarf planet, in the outer solar system.
The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center, which catalogs new moons and other small bodies in the solar ...