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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 ...
The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...
Astronomers have discovered a new member of a rare and mysterious class of solar system objects known as sednoids - a subset of extreme trans-Neptunian objects (ETNOs) with exceptionally distant, ...
Would one frozen world, just visible on the rim of the Sun’s kingdom, turn decades of speculation on the concealed layout of ...
Learn more about a sednoid called Ammonite that has been detected in the outer reaches of the Solar System.
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 ...
Japan's Subaru Telescope in Hawaii detected a faint, icy body. Now named 2023 KQ14, or Ammonite, it lies well beyond Pluto.
"It is possible that a planet once existed in the solar system but was later ejected, causing the unusual orbits we see today ...
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 ...
Typically, telescopes are synonymous with bringing far-off objects close, but the newest member of the solar system was discovered using wide-field imaging. The Subaru Telescope has spotted a distant ...
The discovery was made by astronomers using the Subaru Telescope, which is situated atop a dormant volcano in Hawaii.
Astronomers have spotted a distant celestial object named 'Ammonite' that could potentially debunk the existence of the theorized Planet Nine.