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, ...

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 ...

Typically, telescopes are synonymous with bringing far-off objects close, but the newest member of the solar system was ...

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 ...

"It is possible that a planet once existed in the solar system but was later ejected, causing the unusual orbits we see today ...

Astronomers have discovered "Ammonite," a mysterious object on the solar system’s edge whose unusual orbit challenges current ...

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 ...

The discovery was made by astronomers using the Subaru Telescope, which is situated atop a dormant volcano in Hawaii.