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[ad_1] Posted on 3 Oct. 2018 "These distant objects are like crumbs of bread that lead us to Planet X," said Scott Sheppard of the Carnegie Institution for Sciences. "The more we …

[ad_1] A smiling skull-shaped asteroid springs to our planet from the darkness of space – but it will miss Halloween. On the benefits side, it's not going to affect our planet and …

[ad_1] This site may generate affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Years after its detection proposal, Planet 9 remains stubbornly absent from our astronomical maps. Proof of …

[ad_1] Does this discovery of "The Goblin" make "Planet 9" more likely? Yes, I would say it. It's really strange. I'm starting to get excited about the idea :). There is a …

[ad_1] Pluto, the ninth planet in our solar system, was downgraded from planet to planet dwarf in 2006. So it may surprise some that there is a potential new candidate for the …

[ad_1] A strange little dwarf planet with a colorful name gives astronomers new evidence of the hunt for planet X. The goblin is a recently confirmed dwarf planet that moves to the …

[ad_1] The object in question is 2015 TG387, and it sits right in the middle of the mysterious, strange-orbited cluster astronomers have observed in the solar system. When the celestial body was …

[ad_1] Dwarf planet 2015 TG387’s orbit (above) and its extreme distance from the sun (below). (Roberto Molar Candanosa and Scott Sheppard/Carnegie Institution for Science) Ben Guarino Reporter covering biology, genetics, nature, paleontology …

[ad_1] The discovery images of 2015 TG387 taken by an 8-meter telescope located atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii in October 2015. The images were taken about 3 hours apart. 2015 TG387 can …

[ad_1] It takes Scott Sheppard about 15 minutes to walk to work at the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, a research facility in Washington, D.C., that was originally founded in 1904 …