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 ...

2007 OR10 was discovered on July 17, 2007, as part of the Palomar Distant Solar System Survey. The world is located in the Kuiper belt, a vast disk of small bodies that circle the sun beyond the ...

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 ...

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.

The entire Solar System, including the Sun, has a barycenter, or a common center of mass of all of the Solar System's objects, around which they orbit. ... which is how they got their name.

A boy named Sue. A girl named Beulah. These are some of the unfortunate names a child can have today. But such children have nothing to complain about in comparison to a cold, dark rock that is 6. ...