Two years after being discovered and nick-named by a team of astronomers, a planetoid almost four times farther from the Sun than Pluto has been officially confirmed. The confirmation of “Farfarout” ...

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Astronomers have discovered the most distant object ever found in our solar system. The planetoid — the term for a small chunk of rock or dust or ice orbiting the sun — is appropriately nicknamed ...

Starting with an Earth the size of a marble, these folks built a full-scale model of our solar system across 7 miles of Nevada desert. Anthony Domanico CNET freelancer Anthony Domanico is passionate ...

A small team led by Sihao Cheng, Martin A. and Helen Chooljian Member in the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Natural Sciences, has discovered an extraordinary trans-Neptunian object (TNO), ...

"It is possible that a planet once existed in the solar system but was later ejected, causing the unusual orbits we see today." Astronomers have discovered a massive new solar system body located ...