The orbit of objects in the Kuiper Belt located at the edge of the solar system tilts the same way and points in the same direction. As a result, researchers have theorized that there might be a mysterious planet, dubbed Planet 9, lurking somewhere and exerting a gravitational pull on the objects. A new theory ...
NASA’s New Horizons mission team has published the first profile of the farthest world ever explored, a planetary building block and Kuiper Belt object called 2014 MU69. Analyzing just the first sets of data gathered during the New Horizons spacecraft’s New Year’s 2019 flyby of MU69 (nicknamed Ultima Thule), the mission team quickly discovered an ...
Though the solar system is said to only contain eight planets, scientists had always proposed that there could be hidden ones that are yet to be discovered. A new study gives credence to the theory and suggests that a ninth planet might actually exist. Ninth planet In October 2017, NASA suggested that a ninth planet ...
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