For the first time since Pluto was demoted, the idea of a true ninth planet is edging from speculation toward something ...

There have been questions about a mysterious ninth planet in our solar system for nearly a decade. Pluto was unseated as number nine in 2006. Now, a group of international researchers say they may ...

Astronomers are closing in on one of the most tantalizing possibilities in planetary science, evidence that a previously ...

In the cold, distant reaches of the Solar System, far beyond Pluto, astronomers have just identified what could be a new dwarf planet. It's called 2017 OF 201, a rock that appears to be some 700 ...

After studying thousands of computer simulations of the solar system, researchers at Rice University and the Planetary Science Institute think there’s a 40% chance an elusive “Planet Nine” or “Planet ...

LONDON — 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 ...

In 2006, updated research led to Pluto being controversially demoted to dwarf planet status by the International Astronomical Union. The reasoning was that Pluto's location in the far-flung ...

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 ...

When I was a kid, there were nine planets. Now we know of thousands! But that includes exoplanets, alien worlds that orbit alien suns. Only eight planets call our solar system home. Or there might ...

If the solar system does have a Planet Nine, it is a world that was bullied by its larger siblings, exiled to the far reaches of space and only rescued from oblivion thanks to the intervention of ...

Caltech professor Mike Brown (L) and assistant professor Konstanin Batygin have been working together to investigate distant objects in our solar system for more than a year and a half. The two ...