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

It's an evocative idea that has long bedeviled scientists: a huge and mysterious planet is lurking in the darkness at the ...

Planet Nine, also called Planet X, has never been caught on a telescope (Picture: Getty Images/Science Photo Libra) Scientists hunting for Planet Nine, an elusive planetary body that could change our ...

The object’s aphelion the farthest point on the orbit from the Sun is more than 1,600 times that of the Earth’s orbit,” said ...

The small world was found during a search for the hypothetical Planet Nine, and astronomers say the next time it will reach ...

The object is about 700 kilometres wide and lies nearly three times farther from Earth than Neptune. Its highly elongated ...

In the cold, dark outskirts of planetary systems far beyond the reach of the known planets, mysterious gas giants and ...

As it orbits the sun once every 25,000 years, the celestial body 2017 OF201 travels beyond the Kuiper Belt into a region ...

It is an evocative idea: a huge and mysterious planet is lurking in the darkness at the edge of our solar system, evading all ...

Astronomers find evidence of a possible ninth planet beyond Neptune, reigniting the debate about the formation of the Solar ...

The chance of a planet forming in the outer reaches of the solar system - a hypothetical Planet Nine - could be as high as 40 ...

There’s a new object in the distant reaches of our solar system, and it might just offer clues to a long-standing cosmic ...