Planet 9
Planet 9 Can’t Run Forever. Two Asteroids Give Up Some Clues
Last year, Caltech astronomers Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin found indirect evidence for the existence of a large planet in…
Carnival of Space #497
Welcome, come in to the 497th Carnival of Space! The Carnival is a community of space science and astronomy writers…
Will You Be The Discoverer Of Planet 9?
Citizen science projects are a great way for anyone to be involved in the scientific process. Average, everyday folks have…
Evidence Continues To Mount For Ninth Planet
A new study produced by researchers at Caltech links the existence of Planet 9 to the axial tilt of our…
Weekly Space Hangout – October 21, 2016: Dr. Voula Saridakis of @histastro & Morgan is a Tilted Sun
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: This week's special guest is Dr. Voula Saridakis, a professor at Lake Forest College…
A New Dwarf Planet Joins The Solar System Family
Relying on data collected by the Dark Energy Survey, astronomers have found evidence of a new dwarf planet that is…
Planet 9 Search Turning Up Wealth Of New Objects
In 2014, Scott Sheppard of the Carnegie Institution for Science and Chadwick Trujillo of Northern Arizona University proposed an interesting…
Beyond Neptune, A Chunk Of Ice Is Orbiting The Sun In The Wrong Direction
Beyond the orbit of Neptune, astronomers have spotted another TNO that confounds explanation, and which has been named in honor…
Weekly Space Hangout – May 20, 2016: Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guests: Mike Brown is the Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor of Planetary Astronomy at CalTech.…
How Do We Know There’s a Planet 9?
Are you having trouble keeping track of all the planets in the Solar System? Good news! Astronomers have found evidence…