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Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope have discovered a strange new body in a weird orbit at the edge of the solar system, ...
Learn more about a sednoid called Ammonite that has been detected in the outer reaches of the Solar System.
Would one frozen world, just visible on the rim of the Sun’s kingdom, turn decades of speculation on the concealed layout of ...
A newly discovered dwarf planet called 'Ammonite' (2023 KQ14) has been spotted in the outer solar system, and it could be another nail in the coffin for the Planet Nine hypothesis.
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 ...
Astronomers have discovered a "fossil" world lying in the outskirts of the solar system, according to new research.
KQ14, nicknamed "Ammonite", was discovered using the Subaru Telescope and is a highly elliptical object with a perihelion and ...
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 ...
Discovered through the Formation of the Outer Solar System: An Icy Legacy (FOSSIL) survey using the Subaru Telescope in ...
In 2003, NASA-funded researchers spotted what was then the most distant object discovered in our Solar System. The dwarf ...
According to study co-author Dr Fumi Yoshida, Neptune is the only known massive object near the outer Solar System that could ...
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 ...