For lovers of newly identified space objects, July has indeed been an exciting month. Last week, astronomers described ...

The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...

Astronomers have discovered "Ammonite," a mysterious object on the solar system’s edge whose unusual orbit challenges current ...

Harvard & Smithsonian has discovered a rare object far beyond Neptune, from a class known as trans-Neptunian objects, th ...

A team of astronomers discovered a strange object in the outer solar system that is in a resonant orbit with Neptune.

Learn more about a sednoid called Ammonite that has been detected in the outer reaches of the Solar System.

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

In the dark, icy outskirts of our solar system—far beyond Neptune's orbit—astronomers have discovered a cosmic oddball that ...

An oddly tilted object beyond Neptune moves in perfect sync, one orbit for every ten of Neptune’s, and scientists are ...

Astronomers have made an extraordinary discovery at the outer edge of our solar system—a strange space rock that dances in ...

Astronomers have discovered a bizarre object in the outer solar system, 2020 VN40, that dances to Neptune’s gravitational ...

Astronomers just found a distant space rock called 2020 VN40, orbiting the Sun way out past Neptune. This icy object takes about 164 years to make one lap around the Sun—talk about a long trip! The ...