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

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

Hunting for the building blocks of life? Located in the asteroid belt, Ceres is likely a good bet, study finds ...

Scientists have identified an object about 435 miles (700 km) wide inhabiting the frigid outer reaches of our solar system that might qualify as a dwarf planet, spotting it as it travels on a highly ...

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

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

WASHINGTON: A group of scientists has found a strange new object about 435 miles wide at the far edge of the solar system. It ...

In her devastation at the loss, Ceres ceased the growth of everything on earth — leaving the world all but barren. Brokered ...

Asteroids are the ancient remnants of our solar system's birth, rocky fragments that never formed into planets. Most of these ...

Astronomers have long been intrigued by the makeup of the asteroid belt’s largest body. When it was first spotted in 1801, ...

They said: ‘The discovery of 2017 OF201 is significant because it’s found in a region of the Solar System thought to be empty ...

Once thought to be a barren, rocky body, known as Ceres, it is now revealing itself as something far more interesting, in the ...