U.S. astronomers hunting for "Planet Nine" have instead stumbled on what appears to be a new dwarf planet in the solar system ...

It's an evocative idea that has long bedeviled scientists: a huge and mysterious planet is lurking in the darkness at the ...

For the unversed, "Planet Nine" is a hypothetical planet which is reportedly larger than Earth that is thought to orbit ...

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

Less than 1% of this dwarf planet candidate's orbit is close enough to detect, which means astronomers are lucky to have ...

The object, known as 2017 OF201, was found by researchers at the Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University who were searching for “Planet Nine,” a hypothetical planet larger than ...

The small world was found during a search for the hypothetical Planet Nine, and astronomers say the next time it will reach ...

As it orbits the sun once every 25,000 years, the celestial body 2017 OF201 travels beyond the Kuiper Belt into a region ...

As a result of the International Astronomical Union’s 2006 demotion of Pluto from planet to dwarf planet, our solar system ...

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 ...

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

Some astronomers say the strange, clustered orbits of icy rocks beyond Neptune indicate that something big is out there, ...