The newly discovered world — a "sednoid" — challenges what planetary scientists thought they knew about the edge of the solar ...

The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...

KQ14, nicknamed "Ammonite", was discovered using the Subaru Telescope and is a highly elliptical object with a perihelion and ...

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 ...

Every once in a while, space gives us something totally unexpected. Well this time, the solar system is surprising us with a ...

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 ...

Astronomers have found 2023 KQ14, nicknamed Ammonite, a rare sednoid with a unique orbit that challenges the Planet Nine ...

Would one frozen world, just visible on the rim of the Sun’s kingdom, turn decades of speculation on the concealed layout of ...

A team led by Wang Shiang-yu (王祥宇) and Chen Ying-tung (陳英同) of the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Academia Sinica ...

Japan's Subaru Telescope in Hawaii detected a faint, icy body. Now named 2023 KQ14, or Ammonite, it lies well beyond Pluto.

Discovered through the Formation of the Outer Solar System: An Icy Legacy (FOSSIL) survey using the Subaru Telescope in ...