For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

New Dwarf Planet Candidate Challenges What We Know About Space. Story by Ruta Kulkarni • 2h. S cientists have recently spotted a huge object far away in the cold outer reaches of our solar system.

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U.S. astronomers hunting for "Planet Nine" have instead stumbled on what appears to be a new dwarf planet in the solar system's outer reaches.

A possible new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of our solar system, so far-flung that it takes around 25,000 years to complete one orbit around the sun. The object, known as 2017 ...

Less than 1% of this dwarf planet candidate's orbit is close enough to detect, which means astronomers are lucky to have caught it at all.

Scientists have discovered a new dwarf planet candidate far beyond Pluto in the solar system. Its existence could mean there's no Planet 9.

Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006. Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, researchers say. The possibility that an additional planet may be hidden far into the solar ...

A new dwarf planet candidate, 2017 OF201, approximately 700 km across, has been identified in the outer solar system with an extremely elongated orbit extending into the Oort cloud.