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 ...

Earth has a newly-discovered neighbor in the solar system. But the heavenly body – possibly a dwarf planet à la Pluto – isn't a frequent visitor. Located beyond Neptune, its extreme orbit ...

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 ...

Languages: English. You can get in touch with Alyce by emailing a.collins@newsweek.com A team of astronomers believe they may have discovered a new dwarf planet—just like Pluto—on the edge of ...

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 ...

The TNO is potentially large enough to qualify as a dwarf planet, the same category as the much more well-known Pluto. The new object is one of the most distant visible objects in our solar system ...

Pluto was officially reclassified from a planet to a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in August 2006. While Pluto orbits the Sun and is large enough to be spherical due ...