These are the faintest and smallest planets observed in the Solar System so far, but astronomers believe there may be many more.

A team of astronomers from the Washington-based Carnegie Institution for Science has managed to add three new moons to the ones we already know about in the Solar System. One of them around Uranus, which thus increases its number to…
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