This icy world, temporarily named 2017 OF201, could be a distant cousin of Pluto — and scientists mean "distant" quite ...

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

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

A newly detected planet beyond Pluto is not just expanding our understanding of the Solar System, it might be quietly rewriting it. Astronomers from the University of Taiwan recen ...

The universe is a complete unknown to humans. We are not yet able to control and understand the system in which Earth is located, as evidenced by the possible discovery made by a g ...

A US-based trio hunting this elusive world has stumbled on what appears to be a new dwarf planet in the solar system's outer ...

There’s a new frozen oddball orbiting the Sun, and it’s not your average space rock. It’s a planet—a minor one, to be fair—but one of the largest yet discovered and with an orbit around the Sun that ...

A new dwarf planet, discovered beyond Neptune and described as Pluto's 'cousin,' could void the hypothesis of a Planet X in ...

The first observations of Pluto by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal dramatic phenomena on its surface, like ...

Cheng, together with graduate students from Princeton University, discovered the potential dwarf planet while searching for ...