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

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

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

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