The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...

Typically, telescopes are synonymous with bringing far-off objects close, but the newest member of the solar system was discovered using wide-field imaging. The Subaru Telescope has spotted a distant ...

Would one frozen world, just visible on the rim of the Sun’s kingdom, turn decades of speculation on the concealed layout of ...

Astronomers have discovered a "fossil" world lying in the outskirts of the solar system, according to new research.

Researchers just got a step closer to understanding the origins of our solar system, with the discovery of an object orbiting ...

In 2003, NASA-funded researchers spotted what was then the most distant object discovered in our Solar System. The dwarf ...

For lovers of newly identified space objects, July has indeed been an exciting month. Last week, astronomers described Ammonite, a potential dwarf planet beyond Pluto. Yesterday, astronomers announced ...

For reference, Pluto’s average distance from the Sun is about 40 AU, so 2023 KQ14 is quite distant. At 23.4 billion miles (37 ...

The discovery was made by astronomers using the Subaru Telescope, which is situated atop a dormant volcano in Hawaii.

Astronomers have discovered a "fossil" world lying in the outskirts of the solar system, according to new research.