The newly discovered world — a "sednoid" — challenges what planetary scientists thought they knew about the edge of the solar ...

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 ...

Every once in a while, space gives us something totally unexpected. Well this time, the solar system is surprising us with a ...

A team led by Wang Shiang-yu (王祥宇) and Chen Ying-tung (陳英同) of the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Academia Sinica ...

A newly discovered dwarf planet called 'Ammonite' (2023 KQ14) has been spotted in the outer solar system, and it could be ...

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

Japan's Subaru Telescope in Hawaii detected a faint, icy body. Now named 2023 KQ14, or Ammonite, it lies well beyond Pluto.

For reference, Pluto’s average distance from the Sun is about 40 AU, so 2023 KQ14 is quite distant. At 23.4 billion miles (37 ...

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

"It is possible that a planet once existed in the solar system but was later ejected, causing the unusual orbits we see today ...