For lovers of newly identified space objects, July has indeed been an exciting month. Last week, astronomers described ...

Astronomers have discovered an object at the edge of the solar system that is locked in a strange rhythmic dance with the ice ...

A team of astronomers discovered a strange object in the outer solar system that is in a resonant orbit with Neptune.

Astronomers just found a distant space rock called 2020 VN40, orbiting the Sun way out past Neptune. This icy object takes about 164 years to make one lap around the Sun—talk about a long trip! The ...

Mysterious object found dancing with Neptune This object, called 2020 VN40, is the first confirmed body that orbits the sun once for every ten orbits Neptune completes. Date: July 20, 2025 Source ...

Astronomers have made an extraordinary discovery at the outer edge of our solar system—a strange space rock that dances in ...

Astronomers have found that a weird space rock at the edge of the solar system is locked in a rhythmic dance with Neptune. The object, designated 2020 VN40, is part of a family of distant solar ...

Astronomers have found that a weird space rock at the edge of the solar system is locked in a rhythmic dance with Neptune. The team behind this research thinks that 2020 VN40's ponderous orbital ...

There is no danger of 2020 VN 40 colliding with Neptune, as the orbit of this distant world is very inclined with respect to ...

In a groundbreaking discoverypublished in The Planetary Science Journal, a team of astronomers led by the Center for ...

In the dark, icy outskirts of our solar system—far beyond Neptune's orbit—astronomers have discovered a cosmic oddball that ...

Harvard & Smithsonian has discovered a rare object far beyond Neptune, from a class known as trans-Neptunian objects, th ...