Astronomy1d
20 years ago, the discovery of Eris spelled doom for planet Pluto
When astronomers found a large world farther out than Pluto, it became one of the final nails in the coffin of our ninth ...
BGR9y
Scientists may have just found a ninth planet and it’s massive
Unlike standard-variety Kuiper Belt objects, which get gravitationally “kicked out” by Neptune and then return back to it, Sedna never gets very close to Neptune. The researchers also found ...
Forbes1y
A Second Earth-Like Planet May Exist In The Solar System, Say Scientists
Sedna’s orbit—as well as the inclined orbits of several other TNOs and, more generally, the existence of a cluster of large population of TNOs with orbits beyond Neptune’s gravitational ...
The Brighterside of News on MSN4d
An Earth-like planet could be hiding at the edge of our solar system
Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...
El Adelantado de Segovia12d
A new planet in the solar system? Astronomers inch closer to solving a century-old mystery
The cosmos, full of endless wonders and mysteries, keeps throwing us celestial curveballs. In a revelation that could reshape ...
The Brighterside of News on MSN2mon
New research points to an undiscovered Earth-like planet in our solar system
Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt ... including objects like (90377) Sedna, whose perihelia exceed 60 au. These peculiar ...