A newly found object may set a new record for the most distant dwarf planet in the solar system.. The object, called V774104, lies about nine and a half billion miles from the sun, or two to three ...

Astronomers from the University of Michigan have identified a new dwarf planet orbiting in the outer reaches of our solar system. The new object, called 2014 UZ224, is the farthest dwarf planet ...

Before Uranus’ Discovery, Saturn Was the Farthest Known Planet For millennia, Saturn was the farthest planet from the Sun that had been identified. The earliest known record of Saturn is from ...

This icy world, temporarily named 2017 OF201, could be a distant cousin of Pluto — and scientists mean "distant" quite literally. At its farthest point, it's more than 1,600 times the distance ...

The furthest of the eight planets is similar to the distance between Earth and our Sun. The planet was discovered using data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope .

Dan Smith shows just how fast one planet's jet stream is moving. ... 20,000+ mph winds discovered on exoplanet ... Now take Neptune, the farthest planet in our solar system (sorry, Pluto).

The planet OGLE-TR-56b found by Sasselov’s team is quite unique among the approximately 100 known extrasolar planets. Firstly, it is more than 20 times farther away than any currently known ...

In the short quarter of a century since the first exoplanets were discovered, astronomers have identified roughly 3,500 of these planets that orbit stars outside of Earth's solar system. With new ...

Artist's concept of the newly discovered object 2018 VG18, nicknamed Farout, which researchers think is likely a pinkish dwarf planet. At 120 AU, the object is the farthest body ever found in the ...