Is there a massive undiscovered planet on the outer reaches of the solar system? The idea has been around since before the ...

Astronomers have found 2023 KQ14, nicknamed Ammonite, a rare sednoid with a unique orbit that challenges the Planet Nine ...

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 ...

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

A stronomers have discovered an incredibly rare non-planetary body lurking on the outer reaches of the Solar System, which ...

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

In the icy, dark expanse beyond Neptune, a cosmic fossil has surfaced that threatens to upset decades-old assumptions about the solar system’s secret structure. The new discovery of “Ammonite,” a ...

A tiny object far beyond Pluto, newly discovered by the Subaru Telescope, could reshape our understanding of the early Solar System. Named 2023 KQ14, this rare “sednoid” follows an unusual orbit that ...

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 ...

Despite the powerful telescopes that modern astronomers have to work with, the distant reaches of the Solar System are still ...