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Planet X: We are closing in on the solar system's new occupant

13 December 2017

Evidence for a new body perhaps the size of Neptune way out in the shadows is building – but if there is a ninth planet, it’s unlike any we have seen
That interstellar asteroid could be a shard of a shredded planet

That interstellar asteroid could be a shard of a shredded planet

8 December 2017

'Oumuamua, an oddly shaped asteroid from beyond our solar system, recently passed by. It may have formed when a planet was ripped into fragments by its star

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