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The gas-spewing body spotted by the James Webb is a type of object known as a centaur that is somewhere between a comet and an asteroid.

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James Webb Telescope Spots Bizarre Object That’s Spewing Out Jets of Gases

By Frank Landymore

The objects lie beyond the known boundaries of the Kuiper Belt, a disc of icy bodies that encircle our Solar System.

Scientists Intrigued by Signs of Hidden Ring of Objects at Edge of Solar System

By Frank Landymore

The potential detection of objects lying beyond the Kuiper Belt's limits may upend our understanding of what encircles our solar system.

Scientists Find Evidence for Large Unknown Objects in Distant Solar System

By Frank Landymore

NASA has announced it's intending to change the New Horizons mission's primary target from studying Kuiper Belt objects to heliophysics.

After 15 Year Journey, NASA Suddenly Redirecting Deep Space Mission to New Target

By Victor Tangermann

An unusual volcanic comet has unexpectedly erupted in a massive cloud of gas and ice, stunning astronomers, Live Science reports.

Astronomers Spot Volcano Erupting on a Distant Comet

By Victor Tangermann

A team of astronomers at the UPenn have discovered 139 minor planets — too small for a planet, but not a comet either — orbiting the Sun past Neptune.

Scientists Discover 139 New “Minor Planets” in Our Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

Asteroid Ultima Thule was renamed by NASA to "Arrokoth" thanks to the Nazi connotations of its old name, as Agence France-Press reports.

NASA Reverses Course After Giving Asteroid Nazi Name

By Victor Tangermann

Despite "less than 0.3% of the budget of large international projects," a team of Japanese astronomers found a tiny object at the edge of our Solar System.

Astronomers Find Rare, Distant Space Object With $3,000 Telescope

By Victor Tangermann

In a live stream, NASA's New Horizon spacecraft team revealed new details about Ultima Thule — a space rock floating 6.6 kilometers away from Earth.

Here’s NASA’s Newly-Released Image of Ultima Thule

By Victor Tangermann

After whizzing past Pluto in July 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is fast approaching Ultima Thule — an odd space rock 6.6 billion kilometers away.

New Horizons Will Fly Past the Most Distant Object We’ve Ever Visited

By Victor Tangermann

NASA’s Recent Pictures of Objects in the Kuiper Belt Just Broke Records

NASA’s Recent Pictures of Objects in the Kuiper Belt Just Broke Records

New Horizons Space Probe Captures the Farthest Photo Ever Taken From Earth

New Horizons Space Probe Captures the Farthest Photo Ever Taken From Earth

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NASA Press Release Says Our Solar System Has a 9th Planet

NASA Is Finally Going to Wake up the New Horizons Spacecraft

NASA Is Finally Going to Wake up the New Horizons Spacecraft

Scientists Just Presented New Evidence That Supports Planet Nine’s Existence

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Scientists Just Presented New Evidence That Supports Planet Nine’s Existence

New Evidence Suggests That Our Solar System Has 10 Planets

New Evidence Suggests That Our Solar System Has 10 Planets

By Patrick Caughill