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The Solar System Used to Have Nine Planets: Maybe It Still Does?

Some of us remember August 24, 2006, like it was yesterday. It was the day Pluto got booted from the exclusive “planets club”. I (Sara) was 11 years old, and my entire class began lunch break by passionately chanting, “Pluto is a planet,” in protest of the information we’d just received. It was a touching ...

January 24, 2024

Troy Oakes

A Ninth Planet Lurking in Our Solar System

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 ...

September 17, 2018

Nspirement Staff