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 ...

OF201 spends only 1% of its orbital time close enough to us to be detectable. The presence of this single object suggests ...

OF201 is incredibly lightweight on a cosmic scale. Scientists estimate its mass is about 20,000 times less than Earth’s and ...

A recently discovered celestial body is rewriting our knowledge of the Kuiper Belt and maybe challenging the existence of the ...

Almost 20 years after Pluto was infamously downgraded from its status as a planet, scientists now believe they have ...

While astronomers continue to search for the mysterious "ninth planet”, a possible giant hidden in the extremities of the ...