The pair make up the first major solar system bodies to have Chinese names, according to astrophysicist Simon Porter. The dwarf planet 2007 OR10 is officially Gonggong (龚工)! It's the first ...

How will the International Astronomical Union name a ninth planet in our solar system? It decides the official names of stellar objects, but there’s no precedent for naming a planet orbiting our ...

Though beyond Pluto, it is the fifth-biggest dwarf planet in the solar system, which has not been named since it was identified back in 2007. It has been seen wandering a little far off Neptune ...

Dear Tom,Why is the Earth’s moon just called “the moon,” but the moons of other planets in the Solar System have specific names?—Donna Hirsch, Worth, Ill.Dear Donna,The Earth’s moon is ...

The current name, 2007 OR10, is a designation from the Minor Planet Center, an entity that catalogs all solar system discoveries, which added the object to its records in November 2009.

There's a new moon king in our solar system: 12 new moons were discovered around Jupiter, which makes it the planet with the most moons. Jupiter is already the biggest planet in our solar system.

As the name suggests, when coupled with the influence of distant outer moons, such satellites help to herd the particles orbiting in the ring system together while 'clearing out' others.

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Given the name 2017 OF201, ... "We still don't know much about the solar system far away because currently it is difficult to directly see things beyond about 150 astronomical units," Cheng said.