Planet Nine Finally Found After 10 Years — Why Is NASA Silent?

Planet Nine Finally Found After 10 Years — Why Is NASA Silent? Scientists have been searching for Planet Nine for nearly a decade, and they may have finally found it buried in old satellite data. But there's a massive problem. The orbit doesn't match. The tilt is completely wrong. And now astronomers are facing a disturbing possibility: either everything we predicted about Planet Nine is wrong, or we just discovered something far stranger lurking in the darkness beyond Neptune. In this video, we dive deep into the decade-long hunt for Planet Nine, the mysterious world that should exist at the edge of our solar system. We explore the compelling evidence that started it all back in two thousand sixteen when astronomers Mike Brown and Constantine Batagin noticed something bizarre: distant icy objects beyond Neptune were clustering together in ways that shouldn't be possible without a massive hidden planet pulling them into alignment. For years, telescopes around the world scanned the skies searching for this invisible giant predicted to be five to ten times the mass of Earth, orbiting hundreds of times farther from the sun than we are. Survey after survey came up empty. Pan STARRS found nothing. Subaru found nothing. The Dark Energy Survey struck out. It seemed like Planet Nine was nothing more than a ghost. But then something unexpected happened. Scientists went back through decades-old archived data from infrared satellites like IRAS, Akari, and WISE. And they found it. A faint heat signature that appeared in multiple data sets, moving slowly through space exactly like a distant planet should. The discovery sent shockwaves through the astronomy community. After ten years of searching, could this finally be Planet Nine? Then came the devastating analysis. The orbit was all wrong. Instead of the predicted fifteen to thirty degree tilt, this object was tilted over one hundred twenty degrees, moving retrograde, completely upside down compared to everything else in the solar system. Mike Brown himself, one of the original Planet Nine theorists, confirmed what everyone feared: this isn't Planet Nine. It's something else entirely. We also examine the discovery of two thousand seventeen OF two thousand eleven, an extreme trans Neptunian object with one of the most elongated orbits ever recorded, stretching nearly sixteen hundred astronomical units from the sun. Does it support the Planet Nine theory or contradict it? The answer might surprise you. But the mystery doesn't end there. We explore the fascinating theories about how Planet Nine could have formed: was it born in our solar system and kicked out by gravitational chaos, or was it stolen from another star during the sun's early days in a crowded stellar nursery? Computer simulations suggest both scenarios are not just possible but likely. And now, the search is entering its final phase. The Vera C Rubin Observatory, equipped with the largest digital camera ever built for astronomy, is about to begin the Legacy Survey of Space and Time. For ten years, it will scan the entire southern sky over and over again with unprecedented sensitivity. If Planet Nine exists anywhere within eight hundred astronomical units and isn't smaller or dimmer than predicted, Rubin will find it. And if it doesn't, that might be the most important discovery of all. This is the story of one of the greatest cosmic mysteries of our time. A hunt for an invisible world that's reshaped our understanding of the outer solar system, uncovered bizarre objects that defy explanation, and brought us to the edge of either confirming a new planet or discovering that our solar system is far stranger than we ever imagined. Join us as we unravel the evidence, examine the failed searches, explore the shocking new discoveries, and reveal what comes next in the hunt for Planet Nine. Are we about to solve one of astronomy's biggest mysteries, or are we chasing a ghost that was never there? The answer is closer than you think. If you love deep dives into space mysteries, unexplained cosmic phenomena, and the cutting edge of planetary science, this channel brings you the most mind blowing discoveries from the farthest reaches of our solar system and beyond. Subscribe now and never miss the latest breakthroughs in our quest to understand the universe. What do you think really happened? Is Planet Nine real, or have we been fooled by a statistical illusion? Drop your thoughts in the comments below and let's discuss the evidence together.