For lovers of newly identified space objects, July has indeed been an exciting month. Last week, astronomers described Ammonite, a potential dwarf planet beyond Pluto. Yesterday, astronomers announced ...

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 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 ...

"This is a big step in understanding the outer solar system," team leader Rosemary Pike from the Center for Astrophysics | ...

In a groundbreaking discoverypublished in The Planetary Science Journal, a team of astronomers led by the Center for ...

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, ...

Harvard & Smithsonian have discovered a rare trans-Neptunian object, 2020 VN40, orbiting in perfect sync with Neptune.

The discovery, published in The Planetary Science Journal, was made through the Large inclination Distant Objects (LiDO) ...