Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists think there may be a ninth planet hiding in the distant reaches of the solar system — and a new telescope could finally ...

It would be understandable if you stopped thinking as much about Pluto after it was “demoted” from being considered one of the nine planets sharing the Earth’s solar system to being classified as a ...

Planet Nine, the undiscovered planet at the edge of the solar system that was predicted by the work of Caltech’s Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown in January 2016, appears to be responsible for the ...

It's a question that has baffled scientists around the world for years. Is there really a ninth planet hiding in our solar system? And if so, how do we find it? Now, researchers from Rice University ...

Is there a massive undiscovered planet on the outer reaches of the solar system? The idea has been around since before the discovery of Pluto in the 1930s. Labeled as planet X, prominent astronomers ...

Earlier this year scientists presented evidence for Planet Nine, a Neptune-mass planet in an elliptical orbit 10 times farther from our Sun than Pluto. Since then theorists have puzzled over how this ...

Mike Brown is convinced that beyond Neptune, at the far reaches of our solar system, there's an unseen giant planet. "This is the 5th largest planet in our solar system, lurking out there, waiting to ...

Does our solar system have a mysterious ninth planet? The discovery of a new dwarf world suggests not. It's an evocative idea that has long bedeviled scientists: a huge and mysterious planet is ...

Good news for those with a Pluto-shaped hole in their life, as astronomers may be on the verge of finding a new ninth planet in our solar system. The researchers—an international team led from ...

Is there a massive undiscovered planet on the outer reaches of the solar system? The idea has been around since before the discovery of Pluto in the 1930s. Labeled as planet X, prominent astronomers ...