Discovered through the Formation of the Outer Solar System: An Icy Legacy (FOSSIL) survey using the Subaru Telescope in ...

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

A newly found icy object, Ammonite, may be a 4-billion-year-old fossil from the Solar System’s edge—and it’s casting doubt on ...

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 ...

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

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

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.

According to study co-author Dr Fumi Yoshida, Neptune is the only known massive object near the outer Solar System that could ...

For lovers of newly identified space objects, July has indeed been an exciting month. Last week, astronomers described ...

Despite the powerful telescopes that modern astronomers have to work with, the distant reaches of the Solar System are still ...