If Planet 9 exists, it may be closer and easier to find than thought. Well, we probably discovered it by mistake in 1983. James Webb Telescope infrared telescope is tipped to discover something found by IRAS infrared satellite.

The Milky Way's bright strip of stars could conceal a planet several times more massive than Earth in our solar system, according to a new study's "treasure map."

There is a mystery about whether a large, icy planet lives beyond the orbit of Neptune in the outer regions of the solar system. Scientists searching for Planet Nine have referred to it as "Planet Nine" since it was first proposed.

An unseen planet is predicted to exist based on its apparent gravitational influence on a cluster of small objects. Searches for it haven't turned up anything, and critics contend that the hints of its presence are merely ghosts.

This new analysis predicts that, if it's out there, that skulking planet may be closer, brighter, and easier to spot than previously thought.

A loop around the sun takes about 7,400 years instead of 18,500 years as it orbits our home star once every 18,500 years. Planet Nine may appear brighter to Earth-based telescopes due to its closer orbit to the sun than previously anticipated.

Mike Brown, an astronomer at the California Institute of Technology and co-author of the new study that has been accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal, believes it will be found within a year or two. The statement has been made every year for the past five years, he adds. Optimistic is the word I use most often."

A rocky super-Earth or a gaseous mini-Neptune might be the result of Brown's latest calculations with his Caltech colleague Konstantin Batygin. As a result of Neptune's gravitational influence on Uranus, astronomers predicted the planet's presence in 1846, making it the first giant world to join the solar system's cast of characters since the discovery of Neptune.

Many skeptics, however, have suggested that the gravitational signatures of Planet Nine are simply observational artifacts. There is no evidence that distant objects' orbits are clustered due to an unseen world, say critics, but rather due to natural biases in sky surveys.

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