Researchers found the object named 2017 OF201 while searching for "Planet Nine" - a hypothetical planet thought to exist ...

Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth.

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

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Astronomers have spotted a cosmic mismatch that has left them perplexed - a really big planet orbiting a really small star.

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It had not been thought possible that such tiny, weak stars could provide the conditions needed to form and host huge planets.

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Star TOI-6894 is just like many in our galaxy, a small red dwarf, and only ~20% of the mass of our sun. Like many small stars ...

A giant conundrum has been found orbiting a teeny tiny red dwarf star just a fifth of the size of the Sun. Such small stars ...

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