With 3.2 billion pixels and a decade-long search, the Rubin Observatory will reveal what’s been hiding in plain sight.

A computer simulation predicts that the Rubin Observatory will discover millions of previously undetected objects in the ...

This illustration depicts the most distant object yet found in our Solar System, nicknamed ... More “Farfarout,” in the lower right. In the lower left, a graph shows the distances of the ...

The six most distant known objects in the solar system with orbits exclusively beyond ... faint very fast," says Sheppard. "If you do the math, if you move something twice as far away from the ...

In January 2018, scientists gazing out beyond the known objects of the Solar System spotted something ... said in a statement. A graph shows the distances of the planets, dwarf planets, candidate ...

A group of astronomers from across the globe, including a team from the University of Washington and led by Queen's ...

"I think the discovery of distant objects and the determination of their orbital distribution are important as a stepping stone to understanding the formation history of the solar system ...

These ancient minor planets are called trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), and they date back to the formation of the solar system. Researchers participating in the Discovering the Surface ...