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A newly discovered dwarf planet called 'Ammonite' (2023 KQ14) has been spotted in the outer solar system, and it could be ...
Japan's Subaru Telescope in Hawaii detected a faint, icy body. Now named 2023 KQ14, or Ammonite, it lies well beyond Pluto.
The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...
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 ...
Every once in a while, space gives us something totally unexpected. Well this time, the solar system is surprising us with a ...
In 2003, NASA-funded researchers spotted what was then the most distant object discovered in our Solar System. The dwarf ...
"It is possible that a planet once existed in the solar system but was later ejected, causing the unusual orbits we see today ...
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.
Astronomers have spotted a distant celestial object named 'Ammonite' that could potentially debunk the existence of the theorized Planet Nine.
The discovery was made by astronomers using the Subaru Telescope, which is situated atop a dormant volcano in Hawaii.
Would one frozen world, just visible on the rim of the Sun’s kingdom, turn decades of speculation on the concealed layout of ...