Researchers found the object named 2017 OF201 while searching for "Planet Nine" - a hypothetical planet thought to exist ...

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A possible new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of our solar system, so far-flung that it takes around 25,000 ...

The TNO, which are described as minor planets that orbit the sun at a greater distance than Neptune, were found on the edge ...

So many unexplored secrets still lie at the outskirts of our solar system, where a potential candidate for a new dwarf planet lies. Although space beyond Neptune was thought to be mostly devoid of ...

The TNO is potentially large enough to qualify as a dwarf planet, the same category as ... empty section of space thought to exist beyond Neptune in the Kuiper Belt is not, in fact, empty at ...

an unusual clustering of icy bodies -- including comets and dwarf planets -- which stretches from Neptune and outward toward interstellar space. Six known objects in the Kuiper Belt have ...

The solar system consists of our star, the sun, and everything bound to it by gravity: the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, along with dwarf planets like ...

There are five confirmed dwarf planets in the solar system: Ceres, Haumea, Eris, Makemake and the ex-planet Pluto.All of these planetary pretenders, apart from Ceres, are located in or around the ...

This fact indicates that Neptune’s gravity captured Triton from elsewhere in the Solar System. Triton likely originated as a dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt — the giant asteroid belt beyond ...

Pluto is one of the largest objects in the Kuiper Belt, a region beyond Neptune primarily filled with small, icy objects. Despite its reclassification from planet to dwarf planet in 2006 ...

Scientists have discovered a ring system around a small object beyond the orbit of Neptune, a surprising ... in question orbits Quaoar, a small dwarf planet that lies more than 4 billion miles ...