In the cold, distant reaches of the Solar System, far beyond Pluto, astronomers have just identified what could be a new ...

The unusual orbit of a possible dwarf planet, known as 2017 OF201, makes it less likely that our solar system contains a ...

On May 21, the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of 2017 OF201, which, because ...

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 ...

Scientists believe such an extreme orbit means the object was pushed and pulled by the gravity of giant planets like Jupiter ...

T he Solar System has just gotten a new official member. Currently, with the name of 2017 OF 201, this is a trans-Neptunian ...

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they ...

This week, a beautiful lineup of Saturn, Venus and the moon will rise before the sun, and adorn the night sky. All three ...

The lone planet confirmed to be in the system is squeezed in between the two, orbiting at a distance similar to Earth's distance from the Sun. And, as an added bonus, the planet is orbiting backward ...

A small international team of astronomers has confirmed that a binary star system with an odd signal has a companion—a planet ...