TNOs
The Best Way to Find Planet Nine Might Be Hundreds of Tiny Telescopes
Although the outer Solar System is mostly empty, there are icy objects drifting within the very limits of detection by…
Eris Could be Slushier Than Pluto
In 2005, astronomer Mike Brown and his colleagues Chad Trujillo and David Rabinowitz announced the discovery of a previously unknown…
A 6-Year Search of the Outer Solar System Turns up 461 new Objects (but no Planet 9)
After six years of observing the cosmos, the Dark Energy Survey has announced that it is also responsible for discovering…
Planet 9 Search Turning Up Wealth Of New Objects
In 2014, Scott Sheppard of the Carnegie Institution for Science and Chadwick Trujillo of Northern Arizona University proposed an interesting…
Solar System Guide
The Universe is a very big place, and we occupy a very small corner of it. Known as the Solar…
The (Possible) Dwarf Planet 2007 OR10
Within the Kuiper Belt lies the possible dwarf planet 2007 OR10, one of many objects that has forced astronomers to…
The Dwarf Planet Orcus
Since the early 2000s, more and more objects have been discovered in the outer Solar System that resemble planets. However,…
The Dwarf Planet (and Plutoid) Makemake
In 2003, astronomer Mike Brown and his team from Caltech began a discovery process which would change the way we…