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 ...

Astronomers have discovered a possible new dwarf planet orbiting far beyond Pluto. First detected in March 2023 by Japan's Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, this object has been dubbed 2023 KQ14 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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Learn more about a sednoid called Ammonite that has been detected in the outer reaches of the Solar System.

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

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

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 ...