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.

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A possible new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of our solar system, so far-flung that it takes around 25,000 ...

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 ...

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

The researchers said 2017 OF201 was identified in observations by telescopes in Chile and Hawaii spanning seven years ...

Less than 1% of this dwarf planet candidate's orbit is close enough to detect, which means astronomers are lucky to have ...

Researchers discovered a new trans-Neptunian object, 2017 OF201, potentially a dwarf planet, in the outer solar system.

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

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

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

A team of astronomers believe they may have discovered a new dwarf planet—just like Pluto—on the edge of our solar system. The object—which orbits out beyond Neptune—has been named "2017 OF201" by the ...