A newly identified dwarf planet, named 2017 OF201, has been discovered in the distant outer reaches of the solar system.

The researchers said 2017 OF201 was identified in observations by telescopes in Chile and Hawaii spanning seven years.

A possible new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of our solar system, so far-flung that it takes around 25,000 ...

As explained in a pre-press paper [PDF] titled “Discovery of a dwarf planet candidate in an extremely wide orbit: 2017 OF201” ...

Scientists hunting for the hypothetical Planet Nine have discovered a potential new dwarf planet, 2017 OF201, in the outer ...

As a result of the International Astronomical Union’s 2006 demotion of Pluto from planet to dwarf planet, our solar system ...

For the unversed, "Planet Nine" is a hypothetical planet which is reportedly larger than Earth that is thought to orbit ...

The small world was found during a search for the hypothetical Planet Nine, and astronomers say the next time it will reach ...

As it orbits the sun once every 25,000 years, the celestial body 2017 OF201 travels beyond the Kuiper Belt into a region ...

The object is about 700 kilometres wide and lies nearly three times farther from Earth than Neptune. Its highly elongated ...

Scientists have discovered a colossal object approximately 435 miles wide in the frigid outer reaches of our solar system, ...

They said: ‘The discovery of 2017 OF201 is significant because it’s found in a region of the Solar System thought to be empty ...