In 2004, scientists found Sedna, a potential dwarf planet beyond the belt, had a strange orbit around the sun that hinted another large mass was gravitationally pulling it. A 2014 study found a ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

When astronomers found a large world farther out than Pluto, it became one of the final nails in the coffin of our ninth ...

2015 TG387’s orbit is observed to be similar to other dwarf planets such as Sedna and 2012 VP113, which also are extremely elliptical. 2012 VP113 was discovered by Dr. Sheppard’s team and has ...

The cosmos, full of endless wonders and mysteries, keeps throwing us celestial curveballs. In a revelation that could reshape ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Computer simulations suggest that there is an undiscovered Earth-like ...