{"id":215649,"date":"2025-06-09T05:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T10:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/search-for-elusive-planet-nine-takes-surprising-twist-astronomers-say"},"modified":"2025-06-09T05:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T10:06:09","slug":"search-for-elusive-planet-nine-takes-surprising-twist-astronomers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/search-for-elusive-planet-nine-takes-surprising-twist-astronomers-say","title":{"rendered":"Search for elusive \u201cPlanet Nine\u201d takes surprising twist, astronomers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/search-for-elusive-planet-nine-takes-surprising-twist-astronomers-say.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>U.S. astronomers hunting for \u201cPlanet Nine\u201d have instead stumbled on what appears to be a new dwarf planet in the solar system\u2019s outer reaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. astronomers hunting for \u201cPlanet Nine\u201d have instead stumbled on what appears to be a new dwarf planet in the solar system\u2019s outer reaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215649","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}