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

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

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

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

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

Astronomers have discovered a "fossil" world lying in the outskirts of the solar system, according to new research.

A newly found icy object, Ammonite, may be a 4-billion-year-old fossil from the Solar System’s edge—and it’s casting doubt on ...

In 2003, NASA-funded researchers spotted what was then the most distant object discovered in our Solar System. The dwarf ...

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

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

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

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 ...