A potential new dwarf planet has been discovered in the outer reaches of the solar system, and its existence poses the ...

Discovery of 2017OF201, a large trans-Neptune Object, challenges previous beliefs about the Kuiper Belt and hints at the existence of a theoretical Planet Nine.

Pluto, the largest of those dwarf planets, has a diameter of about 2,377km. The mass of 2017 OF201 is estimated to be about 20,000 times smaller than Earth's and 50 times smaller than Pluto's. "We ...

In today's current political climate, many adults seem resigned to climate catastrophe and even dabble in climate change denialism. However, our survey of 1,000 youth aged 8 to 14 from Canada and the ...

Now, a US-based trio hunting this 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 this new kid on the block ...

A recently discovered celestial body is rewriting our knowledge of the Kuiper Belt and maybe challenging the existence of the ...

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

The discovery challenges the Planet Nine hypothesis, which suggests a massive, unseen planet is influencing the orbits of distant TNOs. While most extreme TNOs show a clustered pattern that supports ...

A new study by the University of Oldenburg and Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) published in Population and Environment shows that the birth of a child has little impact on parents' environmental and ...

The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center announced on 21 May 2025 that the dwarf planet candidate is 'currently located at a distance of 90.5 au' from Earth. Advert To put that ...

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For instance, Neptune migrated outward, switching places with Uranus, and pushed a lot of the small, icy bodies into the ...