{"id":217185,"date":"2025-07-04T09:03:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T14:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/the-solar-systems-greatest-mystery-may-finally-be-solved"},"modified":"2025-07-04T09:03:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T14:03:44","slug":"the-solar-systems-greatest-mystery-may-finally-be-solved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/the-solar-systems-greatest-mystery-may-finally-be-solved","title":{"rendered":"The Solar System\u2019s Greatest Mystery May Finally Be Solved!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-solar-systems-greatest-mystery-may-finally-be-solved.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists are using a new approach to find the mysterious \u2014 if it exists \u2014 Planet Nine by hunting for its heat signature instead of reflected light. Using data from Japan\u2019s AKARI space telescope, a team of researchers identified two promising candidates using their thermal detection method which is more effective than optical searches alone. But could these distant heat sources finally prove the existence of our Solar System\u2019s most elusive world, or will they turn out to be yet another false alarm in the decades long search?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists are using a new approach to find the mysterious \u2014 if it exists \u2014 Planet Nine by hunting for its heat signature instead of reflected light. Using data from Japan\u2019s AKARI space telescope, a team of researchers identified two promising candidates using their thermal detection method which is more effective than optical searches alone. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217185","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}