For lovers of newly identified space objects, July has indeed been an exciting month. Last week, astronomers described ...

Harvard & Smithsonian has discovered a rare object far beyond Neptune, from a class known as trans-Neptunian objects, th ...

A team of astronomers discovered a strange object in the outer solar system that is in a resonant orbit with Neptune.

In the dark, icy outskirts of our solar system—far beyond Neptune's orbit—astronomers have discovered a cosmic oddball that ...

Astronomers have made an extraordinary discovery at the outer edge of our solar system—a strange space rock that dances in ...

Astronomers have discovered a bizarre object in the outer solar system, 2020 VN40, that dances to Neptune’s gravitational ...

Astronomers just found a distant space rock called 2020 VN40, orbiting the Sun way out past Neptune. This icy object takes about 164 years to make one lap around the Sun—talk about a long trip! The ...

Astronomers have discovered an object at the edge of the solar system that is locked in a strange rhythmic dance with the ice ...

In a groundbreaking discoverypublished in The Planetary Science Journal, a team of astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian has confirmed the existence of a rare object ...

There is no danger of 2020 VN 40 colliding with Neptune, as the orbit of this distant world is very inclined with respect to ...

The Subaru Telescope has made an exciting discovery: a small body beyond Pluto, with implications for the formation, ...