The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center, which catalogs new moons and other small bodies in the solar ...

Astronomers have discovered a mysterious dwarf planet, 2017 OF201, far beyond Pluto. This discovery challenges existing ...

The universe is a complete unknown to humans. We are not yet able to control and understand the system in which Earth is located, as evidenced by the possible discovery made by a g ...

There’s a new frozen oddball orbiting the Sun, and it’s not your average space rock. It’s a planet—a minor one, to be ...

A US-based trio hunting this elusive world has stumbled on what appears to be a new dwarf planet in the solar system's outer ...

A new dwarf planet discovery in the outer solar system is challenging the long-standing theory of a hidden giant planet ...

Most of the time, astronomers use high-tech telescopes and expensive equipment to make observations. This time, they just had ...