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The trans-Neptunian object Arrokoth, also known as Ultima Thule, which NASA's space probe New Horizons passed on New Year's Day 2019, may have changed its shape significantly in the first 100 ...

A lone body, making one passage around the Sun for every ten by Neptune, is rewriting the rules of planetary dynamics in the ...

KQ14, nicknamed "Ammonite", was discovered using the Subaru Telescope and is a highly elliptical object with a perihelion and aphelion that places it beyond the heliopause, and is not visible to the ...

There has been the discovery of an odd TNO or trans-Neptunian object. It sits beyond Neptune in the outer solar system. This one is 160,000 times fainter than Neptune, which means the icy world could ...

“Stellar Occultation by the Resonant Trans-Neptunian Object (523764) 2014 WC510 Reveals a Close Binary TNO,” Rodrigo Leiva et al., 2020 Sep. 28, Planetary Science Journal [https://iopscience ...

Named 2017 OF201, this trans-Neptunian object takes 25,000 years to complete a single orbit around the Sun. With a possible size of 700 km, it may soon be added to the official list of dwarf planets.

A team of researchers spotted a close pair of trans-Neptunian objects The unusually close pair was also occulting a binary star system The discovery was made with the help of a citizen science ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The object’s official name is 2015 TG38, but it’s been nicknamed “The Goblin ...

In addition to the newly reported trans-Neptunian objects, Sheppard and Trujillo also discovered another in 2014, which they nicknamed "Biden," after the American Vice President.

“Stellar Occultation by the Resonant Trans-Neptunian Object (523764) 2014 WC510 Reveals a Close Binary TNO,” Rodrigo Leiva et al., 2020 Sep. 28, Planetary Science Journal [https://iopscience ...