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Japan's Subaru Telescope in Hawaii detected a faint, icy body. Now named 2023 KQ14, or Ammonite, it lies well beyond Pluto.
A newly discovered dwarf planet called 'Ammonite' (2023 KQ14) has been spotted in the outer solar system, and it could be another nail in the coffin for the Planet Nine hypothesis.
Astronomers have found 2023 KQ14, nicknamed Ammonite, a rare sednoid with a unique orbit that challenges the Planet Nine hypothesis.
The newly discovered world — a "sednoid" — challenges what planetary scientists thought they knew about the edge of the solar ...
Discovered through the Formation of the Outer Solar System: An Icy Legacy (FOSSIL) survey using the Subaru Telescope in ...
The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...
Astronomers have discovered "Ammonite," a mysterious object on the solar system’s edge whose unusual orbit challenges current ...
Would one frozen world, just visible on the rim of the Sun’s kingdom, turn decades of speculation on the concealed layout of ...
Typically, telescopes are synonymous with bringing far-off objects close, but the newest member of the solar system was ...
Learn more about a sednoid called Ammonite that has been detected in the outer reaches of the Solar System.
KQ14, nicknamed "Ammonite", was discovered using the Subaru Telescope and is a highly elliptical object with a perihelion and ...
According to study co-author Dr Fumi Yoshida, Neptune is the only known massive object near the outer Solar System that could ...