The newly discovered world — a "sednoid" — challenges what planetary scientists thought they knew about the edge of the solar ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

"It is possible that a planet once existed in the solar system but was later ejected, causing the unusual orbits we see today ...

A rare celestial object beyond Neptune, 2020 VN40, moves in sync with Neptune, offering new insights into the outer solar system and fueling the search for Planet Nin ...

Every once in a while, space gives us something totally unexpected. Well this time, the solar system is surprising us with a ...

KQ14, nicknamed "Ammonite", was discovered using the Subaru Telescope and is a highly elliptical object with a perihelion and ...

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