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OF201, the object belongs to the same all-star family as Pluto: dwarf planets. Its diameter, roughly 435 miles (700 km), is ...
Researchers believe that 2017 OF201’s highly eccentric orbit points to a chaotic origin, possibly caused by a gravitational ...
A team of astronomers believe they may have discovered a new dwarf planet—just like Pluto—on the edge of our solar system.
For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.
NASA’s New Horizons mission has taken humanity closer than ever to understanding the mysterious dwarf planet, Pluto. In 2015, ...
Almost 20 years after Pluto was infamously downgraded from its status as a planet, scientists now believe they have ...
In the cold, distant reaches of the Solar System, far beyond Pluto, astronomers have just identified what could be a new ...
As it orbits the sun once every 25,000 years, the celestial body 2017 OF201 travels beyond the Kuiper Belt into a region ...
A newly detected planet beyond Pluto is not just expanding our understanding of the Solar System, it might be quietly rewriting it. Astronomers from the University of Taiwan recen ...
New data captured by the James Webb Space Telescope has finally given astronomers new clues about how Pluto cools itself.
As a result of the International Astronomical Union’s 2006 demotion of Pluto from planet to dwarf planet, our solar system now consists of eight planets, nine dwarf planets, 891 confirmed moons or ...
Discovery of 2017OF201, a large trans-Neptune Object, challenges previous beliefs about the Kuiper Belt and hints at the ...