US EditionAstronomers May Be Close to Finding Planet Nine
- A research team based in Taiwan uncovered a promising Planet Nine candidate by analyzing data from two far-infrared all-sky surveys in 2025.
- This search followed the 2016 proposal by Batygin and Brown that a distant, unseen planet explains clustering in Kuiper Belt objects beyond Neptune.
- The candidate was detected in the IRAS and AKARI surveys spaced 23 years apart, allowing researchers to track its slow expected orbital motion far beyond Neptune.
- The researchers noted that Planet Nine would appear to travel across the sky at a very slow pace because it is located far past Neptune's orbit.
- Confirmation of Planet Nine would improve understanding of the solar system's structure and evolution, but further observations are needed as the candidate remains unproven.
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Astronomers have long speculated about an unseen planet lurking in the solar system's outer edge. This hypothetical world, dubbed Planet Nine, could explain the unusual clustering of distant objects in the Kuiper Belt – a region beyond Neptune filled with icy bodies like Pluto. A new study led by astronomer...Read Entire Article
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