Planet Nine could be a rogue planet that got captured by our Solar SystemYour wandering days are ove

Planet Nine could be a rogue planet that got captured by our Solar System

Your wandering days are over.

By Peter Dockrill

Scientists are still trying to track down the exact location of the elusive Planet Nine – the hypothesised ninth planet of our Solar System that was proposed by scientists in January last year.

But while they’re at it, new research has offered up an explanation for how this huge and mysterious world could have come to orbit our Sun in the first place: it was once a free-floating nomad, before it got snatched into our Solar System by the gravitational pull of the Sun.

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