A stronomers have discovered an incredibly rare non-planetary body lurking on the outer reaches of the Solar System, which ...

Typically, telescopes are synonymous with bringing far-off objects close, but the newest member of the solar system was discovered using wide-field imaging. The Subaru Telescope has spotted a distant ...

In the icy, dark expanse beyond Neptune, a cosmic fossil has surfaced that threatens to upset decades-old assumptions about the solar system’s secret structure. The new discovery of “Ammonite,” a ...

Astronomers have discovered a "fossil" world lying in the outskirts of the solar system, according to new research.

According to study co-author Dr Fumi Yoshida, Neptune is the only known massive object near the outer Solar System that could ...

The discovery was made by astronomers using the Subaru Telescope, which is situated atop a dormant volcano in Hawaii.

"It is possible that a planet once existed in the solar system but was later ejected, causing the unusual orbits we see today ...

For reference, Pluto’s average distance from the Sun is about 40 AU, so 2023 KQ14 is quite distant. At 23.4 billion miles (37 ...

In 2003, NASA-funded researchers spotted what was then the most distant object discovered in our Solar System. The dwarf ...

Researchers use the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii to find a small object on the outer edge of the Solar System. Nicknamed ...

For one unfortunate ammonite in the Late Jurassic, this was no dream but a harsh reality. The animal died utterly unclad, outside its whorled shell, and was buried this way.