Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Digital art of distant planet - Dottedhippo/Getty Images On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by ...

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An artist's illustration of the view from a Kuiper Belt object. (CREDIT: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)) Astronomers at Princeton University have uncovered evidence that the outer solar system is ...

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. Labelled as planet X, prominent astronomers ...

The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper’s authors have dubbed ...

An artist's illustration of a possible ninth planet in our solar system, hovering at the edge of our solar system. Neptune's orbit is shown as a bright ring around the Sun. Scientists in Taiwan ...

Beyond the edge of Neptune, a distant realm of icy debris known as the Kuiper Belt stretches deep into space. This frozen frontier holds the scattered remains of the early solar system, offering ...

Astronomers used a telescope in Hawaii to find a new object on the outer edges of our solar system, helping to fuel evidence of a long-standing theory about Planet Nine, or Planet X. For years, ...

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 ...

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 ...