A team of scientists at the Institute for Advanced Study School of Natural Sciences in Princeton, New Jersey, might have found a new dwarf planet, potentially leading to more evidence of a ...

"It's very rare to discover an object both large and with an exotic orbit." A potential new dwarf planet has been discovered in the outer reaches of the solar system, and its existence poses the ...

By Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang has been reporting on dwarf planets and their definitions since Pluto was demoted into that category. A sizable world has been found in a part of the solar system ...

WASHINGTON, May 30 (Reuters) - Scientists have identified an object about 435 miles (700 km) wide inhabiting the frigid outer reaches of our solar system that might qualify as a dwarf planet ...

A new discovery may mean Planet Nine is cancelled. . | Credit: nagualdesign; Tom Ruen, background taken from File:ESO - Milky Way.jpg/Wikimedia Commons A potential new dwarf planet has been ...

OF201 spends only 1% of its orbital time close enough to us to be detectable. The presence of this single object suggests ...

Now, a U.S.-based trio hunting the elusive world has instead stumbled on what appears to be a new dwarf planet in the solar system's outer reaches. And the existence of the new kid on the block ...

It's possible the trans-Neptunian object, dubbed 2017 OF201, is large enough to qualify as a dwarf planet, making it an "extreme 'cousin' of Pluto," according to Institute for Advanced Study ...

But there are always new surprises -- especially when NASA's ... Sep. 27, 2024 — A crater-rich dwarf planet named Ceres located in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter ...

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from stars and constellations to bright planets, the moon, and sometimes special events like meteor showers. Observing the night sky can be done with no special equipment, although a sky map can ...