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

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.

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

The small world was found during a search for the hypothetical Planet Nine, and astronomers say the next time it will reach ...

U.S. astronomers hunting for "Planet Nine" have instead stumbled on what appears to be a new dwarf planet in the solar system ...

As it orbits the sun once every 25,000 years, the celestial body 2017 OF201 travels beyond the Kuiper Belt into a region ...

Astronomers have discovered a new dwarf planet, named 2017 OF201, far beyond Pluto's orbit. It takes 25,000 years to orbit ...

For the unversed, "Planet Nine" is a hypothetical planet which is reportedly larger than Earth that is thought to orbit ...

But the heavenly body – possibly a dwarf planet à la Pluto – isn't a frequent visitor. Located beyond Neptune, its extreme orbit circumnavigates the sun once every 25,000 years, taking it ...