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  1. Planet Nine - Wikipedia

    Astronomers Konstantin Batygin and Michael Brown have suggested that Planet Nine may be the core of a giant planet that was ejected from its original orbit by Jupiter during the genesis of the Solar …

  2. Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Real Ninth Planet

    Nov 13, 2025 · The object, which the researchers have nicknamed Planet Nine, has a mass about 10 times that of Earth and orbits about 20 times farther from the sun on average than does Neptune …

  3. Scientists Just Found New Evidence That Planet Nine Might Be Real

    Sep 8, 2025 · Astronomers may have demoted Pluto from full-fledged planet to dwarf status, but evidence suggests the solar system may still host a mysterious ninth planet — far beyond Neptune, …

  4. Evidence of controversial Planet 9 uncovered in sky surveys taken 23 ...

    May 1, 2025 · Planet Nine is a hypothesized massive planet, first proposed in 2014, that is speculated to orbit far out in the solar system. It has not been detected formally. Instead, astronomers have...

  5. Planet Nine | Definition, Characteristics, Search, & Facts - Britannica

    4 days ago · The four outer planets are Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus, giant planets that consist mainly of either gases or ice. Pluto was considered the ninth planet until 2006, when the International …

  6. A 9th planet in our solar system? Jury’s out, but a candidate has ...

    May 6, 2025 · Now, a newly identified object spotted in two infrared sky surveys has renewed the question of whether the elusive and hypothetical Planet 9 actually exists.

  7. Does Planet Nine exist? - Astronomy Magazine

    Jan 6, 2025 · The existence of "Planet Nine," a hypothetical planet in the outer solar system, is supported by indirect evidence such as the unusual clustering of orbits of extreme trans-Neptunian …

  8. Where Is Planet Nine? Its Hiding Places Are Running Out

    Apr 15, 2024 · At very roughly 1,000 kilometers across it’s classified as a dwarf planet, and its orbit is very unusual: it never gets closer than approximately 11 billion kilometers to the sun, well outside ...

  9. The Mystery of Planet Nine | How the Universe Works - YouTube

    A mysterious ninth planet lurks in the outer reaches of our solar system and it’s a giant: ten times the mass of the Earth. But why is it so hard to catch a glimpse of?

  10. What we know about the search for ‘Planet Nine’ in our solar system

    Jul 29, 2025 · That mystery was ultimately explained by a recalculation of Neptune ’s mass in the 1990s, but then a new theory of a potential Planet Nine was put forward in 2016 by astronomers Konstantin...