{"id":215527,"date":"2025-06-06T17:04:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T22:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/goodbye-to-our-solar-system-as-we-know-it-astronomers-confirm-there-is-a-new-planet-orbiting-the-sun-beyond-pluto"},"modified":"2025-06-06T17:04:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T22:04:47","slug":"goodbye-to-our-solar-system-as-we-know-it-astronomers-confirm-there-is-a-new-planet-orbiting-the-sun-beyond-pluto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/goodbye-to-our-solar-system-as-we-know-it-astronomers-confirm-there-is-a-new-planet-orbiting-the-sun-beyond-pluto","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye to our Solar System as we know it: Astronomers confirm there is a new planet orbiting the Sun beyond Pluto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/goodbye-to-our-solar-system-as-we-know-it-astronomers-confirm-there-is-a-new-planet-orbiting-the-sun-beyond-pluto.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The universe is a complete unknown to humans. We are not yet able to control and understand the system in which <strong>Earth<\/strong> is located, as evidenced by the possible discovery made by a group of astronomers from the University of Taiwan, who suggest that they <strong>may have found clues to the existence of a ninth planet.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Solar System is currently known to be made up of eight planets: <strong>Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune<\/strong>, apart from Pluto, which has long been considered a dwarf planet. But one more could join this select group, according to an infrared study carried out between 1986 and 2006.<\/p>\n<p>The work was based on data from the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) and the Japanese satellite AKARI, which <strong>detected an object moving between 46.5 billion and 65.1 billion miles from the Sun<\/strong>, meaning it <strong>would take between 10,000 and 20,000 years to complete an orbit.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The universe is a complete unknown to humans. We are not yet able to control and understand the system in which Earth is located, as evidenced by the possible discovery made by a group of astronomers from the University of Taiwan, who suggest that they may have found clues to the existence of a ninth [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}