Boffin's software found a possible dwarf planet - a result so rare he thought it must be a bug

A scientist working on data gathered by the Rubin Observatory has found a strong candidate for our solar system’s sixth known dwarf planet.The Observatory is run by the USA’s National Science Foundation and Department of Energy, who built it on a remote hilltop in Chile and equipped it with the 3200-megapixel Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera, which came online in June 2026.As explained in a Tuesday announcement, Rubin Operations team member and project contributor Matthew Holman, of the Center for Astrophysics (CfA) at Harvard & Smithsonian, used search code he developed with CfA colleague Kevin Napier to analyze data captured before LSST operations commenced.The Observatory says Holman’s and Napier’s code “is...

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