Rubin Observatory has spotted a distant world beyond Pluto as its decade-long survey begins revealing the hidden solar system ...

Seventeen-year-old Wolf Cukier was on his third day on the job as a NASA intern when he discovered a fascinating new planet.

Astronomers using the Vera C. Rubin Telescope discovered a possible new dwarf planet that, if confirmed, could join 5 others ...

Astronomers have found a possible new dwarf planet beyond Pluto. And the remarkable thing is that they’d been photographing ...

Alien life may not need the kind of home humans instinctively search for. Some of the strangest possibilities begin once ...

A large object in the Kuiper Belt — a distant region of icy and rocky bodies past Neptune — appears to be a new candidate ...

ED138, a newly discovered dwarf planet candidate, could join a group of only five other recognized objects that includes our ...

As far-fetched as it may seem, quirks of orbital mechanics could allow hundreds of planets to be packed around a star ...

The object, known for now as 2026 ED138, is one of the first discoveries by the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile.

On Tuesday astronomers at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet candidate in a distant ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Scientists using a Chile-based telescope have identified an icy object orbiting ...

To be considered a dwarf planet, an object needs to be massive enough to form a round shape under its own gravity. ED138’s ...