Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system.

Using data from the union’s Minor Planet Center, the astronomers who discovered the minor planet, which is currently referred to as 2007 OR10, estimate that it is the largest unnamed world in ...

Astronomers on Wednesday confirmed the discovery of an interstellar object racing through our Solar System -- only the third ...

A team of astronomers believe they may have discovered a new dwarf planet—just like Pluto—on the edge of our solar system. The object—which orbits out beyond Neptune—has been named "2017 OF201" by the ...

The Minor Planet Center has confirmed the addition of 28 newly discovered moons of Saturn. Saturn now has 117 moons and Jupiter has 95. Corey Powell notes that if we start counting all the chunks in ...

On May 21, the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of 2017 OF201, which, because of its distance beyond Neptune, is classified as a trans-Neptunian ...

The Minor Planet Center, which tracks the positions of minor planets, comets and space rocks, also received recent reports of observations of the asteroid 2023 BU.

The minor world is dubbed 2017 OF201; the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center added the object to its catalog on May 21. Despite its classification, the planet measures ...

The new object was officially announced by the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center on May 21, 2025, and shared in an arXiv pre-print.

A previously unknown dwarf planet circles through the far reaches of our solar system, the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center announced Tuesday. Officially designated 2015 ...

The Minor Planet Center operates under a NASA grant to gather information about near-Earth asteroids and their orbits. Creators of the Daily Minor Planet rely on the data collected by scientists ...

Discovered on February 11th, 2014 by Mt. Lemmon Survey, Near-Earth Asteroid 2014 CU13, with an estimated diameter of an 80 story building (120-260m) and traveling at 43,173 MPH / 19.31 (km/s)… ...