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

WASHINGTON (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, spotting it as it ...

WASHINGTON: A group of scientists has found a strange new object about 435 miles wide at the far edge of the solar system. It ...

The object is about 700 kilometres wide and lies nearly three times farther from Earth than Neptune. Its highly elongated ...

Researchers discovered a new trans-Neptunian object, 2017 OF201, potentially a dwarf planet, in the outer solar system.

Thousands of satellites with incredibly short lifetimes are being sent up into low Earth orbit. When they fall back down they ...

As explained in a pre-press paper [PDF] titled “Discovery of a dwarf planet candidate in an extremely wide orbit: 2017 OF201” ...

The object’s aphelion the farthest point on the orbit from the Sun is more than 1,600 times that of the Earth’s orbit,” said ...

The name of the project comes from the Kuipe r Belt, an area of the solar system beyond the eight main planets and named after Dutch astronomer Gerard Kuiper. The project started in 2018 ...

The object’s aphelion—the farthest point on the orbit from the sun—is more than 1,600 times that of Earth’s orbit,” Institute ...