Astronomers have announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet in our solar system, named 2017 OF201. Located far beyond ...

The unusual orbit of a possible dwarf planet, known as 2017 OF201, makes it less likely that our solar system contains a ...

On May 21, the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of 2017 OF201, which, because ...

There’s a new frozen oddball orbiting the Sun, and it’s not your average space rock. It’s a planet—a minor one, to be ...

T he Solar System has just gotten a new official member. Currently, with the name of 2017 OF 201, this is a trans-Neptunian ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

A small team led by Sihao Cheng, Martin A. and Helen Chooljian Member in the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Natural ...

A s the most massive planet in the Solar System, and first to form, Jupiter’s gravity shaped the formation of everything else ...

Discover the order of planets in the solar system. From Mercury to Neptune, explore our solar system and learn more about our cosmic home. The solar system is our cosmic neighborhood, made up of ...

Astronomers have found new evidence that a mysterious ninth planet may be hiding at the edge of the solar system - rewriting what we know about the cosmos again. An international team from Taiwan ...

Scientists provided a detailed look into Jupiter's primordial state and their calculations revealed that Jupiter was ...