Planet 9
Just discovered! “Farout”, the Farthest Object Ever Seen in the Solar System
Astronomers have discovered a distant body that's more than 100 times farther from the Sun than Earth is. Its provisional…
New Dwarf Planet Found in the Outskirts of the Solar System, Giving Astronomers More Ammunition to Search for Evidence of Planet 9
Astronomers have found a new dwarf planet way out beyond Pluto that never gets closer than 65 AUs to the…
What are the Chances that the Next Generation LSST Could Find New Planets in the Solar System?
In a new study led by the Lowell Observatory, a team of researchers indicate how the next-generation Large Synoptic Survey…
New Study Indicates that Planet 9 Likely Formed in the Solar System
A new study by a team of astronomers from the UK and Switzerland explores how Planet 9 could have ended…
An Astronomical Detective Tale and the Moon of 2007 OR10
It isn't every day we get a new moon added to the list of solar system satellites. The combined observational…
Four Candidates For Planet 9 Located
A concentrated three-day search for a mysterious, unseen planet in the far reaches of our own solar system has yielded…
Planet 9 Can’t Run Forever. Two Asteroids Give Up Some Clues
Last year, Caltech astronomers Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin found indirect evidence for the existence of a large planet in…
Will You Be The Discoverer Of Planet 9?
Citizen science projects are a great way for anyone to be involved in the scientific process. Average, everyday folks have…
Evidence Continues To Mount For Ninth Planet
A new study produced by researchers at Caltech links the existence of Planet 9 to the axial tilt of our…
Planet 9 Search Turning Up Wealth Of New Objects
In 2014, Scott Sheppard of the Carnegie Institution for Science and Chadwick Trujillo of Northern Arizona University proposed an interesting…