Two years after being discovered and nick-named by a team of astronomers, a planetoid almost four times farther from the Sun than Pluto has been officially confirmed. The confirmation of “Farfarout” ...

With the help of the international Gemini Observatory, a Program of NSF's NOIRLab, and other ground-based telescopes, astronomers have confirmed that a faint object discovered in 2018 and nicknamed ...

HONOLULU (NEXSTAR/KHON) — A research team at the University of Hawaii has confirmed that a recently discovered planetoid is almost four times farther from the sun than Pluto, making it the most ...

The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) is being launched later this month to study the outer reaches of the heliosphere which defines where our solar system ends and interstellar space ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HONOLULU (NEXSTAR/KHON) — A research team at ...