Would one frozen world, just visible on the rim of the Sun’s kingdom, turn decades of speculation on the concealed layout of ...

Typically, telescopes are synonymous with bringing far-off objects close, but the newest member of the solar system was ...

Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our understanding of how planets take shape — not only in our solar system, but ...

KQ14, nicknamed "Ammonite", was discovered using the Subaru Telescope and is a highly elliptical object with a perihelion and ...

According to study co-author Dr Fumi Yoshida, Neptune is the only known massive object near the outer Solar System that could ...

A tiny object far beyond Pluto, newly discovered by the Subaru Telescope, could reshape our understanding of the early Solar ...

Astronomers witness first moments of planet formation as rock grains crystallize around distant star HOPS-315.

Astronomers have discovered a "fossil" world lying in the outskirts of the solar system, according to new research.

Scientists say they have found a mysterious 'tiny world' in our solar system. Apparently, the Subaru Telescope at the Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii has uncovered there's a new 380-kilometer world ...

The “new world” was found as part of the survey project FOSSIL (Formation of the Outer Solar System: An Icy Legacy), hence its nickname, Ammonite. An ammonite is a fossil of a cephalopod that died out ...