Our Earth, Wind and Flowers Garden Club's small tour of three gardens brought both friends and curious neighbors. It was an ...

If you've run into any bugs: report them! (You'll need a github account.) Make sure to describe the issue in as much detail as you can, and to mention what system ...

Named 2017 OF201, its diameter is about 435 miles (700 km) The object takes roughly 25,000 years to orbit the sun It is among the solar system's furthest visible objects Scientists have identified an ...

Languages: English. You can get in touch with Alyce by emailing [email protected] A team of astronomers believe they may have discovered a new dwarf planet—just like Pluto—on the edge of ...

Things like asteroids or Ceres, a dwarf planet like Pluto which orbits in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. A new study in Nature Communications says carbon appears to be blown into ...

This is an image of Ceres, the nearest dwarf planet to Earth in the solar system. A new dwarf planet extremely far from the sun may have just been discovered. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA ...

The new object is one of the most distant visible objects in our solar system. Astronomers have indeed discovered a potential new dwarf planet in the outer reaches of our solar system, far beyond ...

Earth has a newly-discovered neighbor in the solar system. But the heavenly body – possibly a dwarf planet à la Pluto – isn't a frequent visitor. Located beyond Neptune, its extreme orbit ...

Images of dwarf planets: NASA/JPL-Caltech; image of 2017 OF201: Sihao Cheng et al. A composite image showing the five dwarf planets recognized by the International Astronomical Union, plus the newly ...

So many unexplored secrets still lie at the outskirts of our solar system, where a potential candidate for a new dwarf planet lies. Although space beyond Neptune was thought to be mostly devoid of ...

Astronomers have announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet in our solar system, named 2017 OF201. Located far beyond Neptune, it orbits the sun every 25,000 years.

On May 21, the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of 2017 OF 201, which, because of its distance beyond Neptune, is classified as a trans-Neptunian ...