Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Is there an unseen planet — a "planet X" or "Planet Nine" — ...

Astronomers are nearing the discovery of Planet X, a mysterious celestial body that could reshape our understanding of the ...

The Xai Foundation announced today that the treasure hunt extraction shooter Planet-X is joining the Xai blockchain system. It joins Xai’s roster of games and is currently in closed beta with a launch ...

We’re closer than ever before to knowing whether there is a ninth planet whooshing around the sun – and, alas, it’s not Pluto. Planet X, also called Planet Nine, is a hypothetical planetary body seven ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Planet Nine is a hypothesized massive planet, first proposed in 2014, that is speculated to orbit ...

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 ...

The apparent brightness of celestial objects, rather than their proximity, is the primary factor determining observability. Andromeda Galaxy, despite its vast distance, appears significantly brighter ...

Humanity has discovered thousands of planets around other stars in the galaxy — so why aren’t we sure how many are in our own backyard? The existence of a distant, as-yet-undetected planet in our own ...

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's (European Space Agency's) XMM-Newton, astronomers are exploring whether nearby stars could host habitable exoplanets, based on whether they emit ...

Planet X has a long and storied history of non-existence. For about 130 years, astronomers have debated the existence of an additional planet or planets to explain discrepancies in the orbits of the ...