Kuiper belt

An artist’s rendering of icy objects in the Kuiper Belt.

What caused this space object’s weird orbit? ‘It was totally Planet Nine,’ one astronomer says.

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“Niku” is an icy debris chunk in the Kuiper Belt. And according new research out of CalTech, its wild orbit is linked to the distant, as-yet-unseen “Planet Nine.”

Kuiper Belt object

This strangely orbiting space object could have ties to Planet Nine

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After a long, cold journey, NASA’s New Horizons probe has Pluto in its sights

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