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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just because Pluto was ruled out as a planet in 2006 doesn’t mean our solar system only has eight planets. The search for Planet ...

A lonely world drifting through space with no star to orbit is gorging on gas and dust at a staggering pace, swallowing ...

While searching for the mysterious Planet X that some astronomers believe lurks on the edge of our solar system, researchers instead found an extremely distant object they dubbed "the Goblin." And ...