Technology.org (Oct. 17) – Astronomers at the University of Michigan and their colleagues on the Dark Energy Survey have discovered a new dwarf planet that’s more than 90 times farther from the sun than Earth is, making it the second-most-distant minor planet in the known solar system. The Dark Energy Survey is a collaboration of more than 400 scientists from 26 institutions in seven countries. Its data are processed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at Illinois.