Pakistan, May 27 -- Astronomers have discovered a new dwarf planet, named 2017 OF201, far beyond Pluto's orbit. It takes 25,000 years to orbit the sun-much longer than Pluto's 248 years. This makes it one of the most distant objects ever found in our solar system, over 1,600 times farther from the sun than Earth at its farthest point. The discovery could change our understanding of the outer solar system and what lies beyond it.

The discovery was announced on May 21, 2025, by the International Astronomical Union. It came from a team led by Sihao Cheng of Princeton University. They were searching for the mysterious "Planet 9" and used data from large telescopes in Chile and Hawaii. Advanced computer tools helped them track a moving bright...