The researchers said 2017 OF201 was identified in observations by telescopes in Chile and Hawaii spanning seven years.

Researchers discovered a new trans-Neptunian object, 2017 OF201, potentially a dwarf planet, in the outer solar system.

As explained in a pre-press paper [PDF] titled “Discovery of a dwarf planet candidate in an extremely wide orbit: 2017 OF201” ...

They said: ‘The discovery of 2017 OF201 is significant because it’s found in a region of the Solar System thought to be empty ...

A potential new dwarf planet has been discovered in the outer reaches of the solar system, and its existence poses the ...

OF201, a distant dwarf planet candidate with a rare orbit that questions the existence and stability of the Planet Nine theory.

WASHINGTON: A group of scientists has found a strange new object about 435 miles wide at the far edge of the solar system. It ...

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

OF201, a possible dwarf planet with a 25,000-year orbit, challenging theories about Planet Nine and the solar system’s edge.

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

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

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