22 January 2016
Possible “Planet Nine” Discovery Announced
...relative to the plane of the eight officially recognized planets. If Planet Nine exists, it would be about the same size... is needed to either prove or disprove the existence of Planet Nine, the overall reaction of the scientific community has so...
27 January 2016
Interaction between protoplanetary disks and planets confirmed by astronomers using ALMA
... radial drift triggered by gas drag. This concentration of large grains could facilitate the formation process of further planets as the particles may grow faster because of enhanced density of solids. “The results of this investigation show that...
22 February 2016
Researchers constrain a possible location for Planet 9 using Cassini data
...Caltech researchers provided the most compelling evidence yet that Planet X or Planet 9 as it has been nicknamed, resides in a... observed by the smaller objects. A predicted consequence of Planet Nine is that a second set of confined objects should...
04 December 2019
Giant planet found orbiting a white dwarf for the first time
... now, scientists had never found evidence of a surviving giant planet around a white dwarf. “It was one of those chance ...found in the deep atmospheric layers of icy, giant planets like Neptune and Uranus Follow-up observations using the X-Shooter...
