TREE NEWS update: The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center said on Oct. 27 that a dwarf planet candidate, designated 2026 ED138, has been found in the outer solar system and would become the sixth officially recognized dwarf planet if confirmed. US researchers using a computer program analyzed observations from Chile’s Vera C. Rubin Observatory to find the icy body, estimated at 46 astronomical units from the Sun — farther out than Pluto’s 40 AU. It is classed as a trans-Neptunian object.
Astronomers spot candidate dwarf planet 2026 ED138 beyond Neptune
AI take
This is a space-science item with no crypto or RWA angle, so it carries little relevance for digital-asset markets. Its significance sits in the discovery pipeline rather than the object itself: the find was surfaced by software analyzing Vera C. Rubin Observatory data, pointing to automated survey tooling as a growing driver of outer-solar-system detections. Confirmation by the IAU is the open question, and until then the sixth-dwarf-planet framing remains provisional.
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