Astronomers have found a new minor planet beyond Pluto. This object, named 2017 OF201, is quite large. It orbits far from the ...

The newly discovered object, named 2017 OF201, has a 25,000-year orbit and is believed to be a large contender for dwarf ...

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

The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center, which catalogs new moons and other small bodies in the solar ...

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.

Astronomers have discovered a mysterious dwarf planet, 2017 OF201, far beyond Pluto. This discovery challenges existing ...

A new dwarf planet, discovered beyond Neptune and described as Pluto's 'cousin,' could void the hypothesis of a Planet X in ...

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

In the cold, distant reaches of the Solar System, far beyond Pluto, astronomers have just identified what could be a new ...

This icy world, temporarily named 2017 OF201, could be a distant cousin of Pluto — and scientists mean "distant" quite literally. At its farthest point, it's more than 1,600 times the distance ...

Astronomers have discovered a new dwarf planet, named 2017 OF201, far beyond Pluto's orbit. It takes 25,000 years to orbit ...