New Planet In The Solar System? This Is The New Discovery By Scientists That Could Change The View...

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Here are current news headlines from around the world, resembling "Planet Solar System" and "Discovery Scientists Could Change View" in style: * "Galaxies Tumble and Merge: New Simulation Reveals Reality of the Universe"

* "Age of the Universe Upended: Discovery Challenges Our Understanding of Cosmic History"

* "Alien Megastructure Spotted in Distant Galaxy: Scientists Stunned by Discovery"

* "Planetary Sciences Shift: New Study Suggests Mars is Older than Thought"

* "Release of Long-Lost Comet Crushes Scientific Assumptions"

* "The Mystery of Dark Matter Deepens: Waning Evidence Problematic for Theories"

* "Ancient Solar System Model Reconsidered: Insights into Planet Formation"

* "Asteroid Belt Overhauled: New Calculations Rewrite Asteroid Significance"

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If you get the question in Trivial Pursuit "how many plantes are there in the Solar System?" , depending on when you went to school or how old the version is, there's a fair chance of giving the wrong answer. That's because Pluto was downgraded from a "planet" to a "dwarf planet" in 2016 by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).

However, this year a powerful new telescope is coming online that could prove once and for all that there really is a ninth planet in our Solar System . The same year that Pluto was ignominiously stripped of its status, a paper was published theorizing that there was another planet, a very big planet, beyond Neptune .

The planet theorized by California Institute of Technology (Caltech) astronomers Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown, also called Planet X , is believed to be roughly seven times the mass of Earth but could be anywhere between five and ten times more massive. However, it is somewhere between 500 and 700 times further from the Sun than Earth making it incredibly hard to see. For perspective, Neptune is 30 times farther from the Sun than Earth.

Additionally, its orbit around the Sun could take 10,000 to 20,000 years making it difficult to locate. That said, scientists have a general idea where it should be, but current telescopes just aren't powerful enough to properly search that portion of space. However, this year the Vera C. Rubin Observatory , built on a mountain top in Chile , will begin making observations of the night sky.

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