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

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

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

Astronomers find evidence of a possible ninth planet beyond Neptune, reigniting the debate about the formation of the Solar ...

but how was this new possible planet discovered? The study says it arises from anomalous patterns in the Kuiper Belt, an icy region beyond Neptune. The body appears in two historical images ...

Scientists have discovered a mysterious new object far beyond Neptune, and it could be one of the most distant dwarf planets ...

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

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