PLANET GOBLIN REVEALED

The discovery of a new dwarf planet – nicknamed ‘the Goblin’ – was announced in October by astronomers hunting for a ninth large planet on the outskirts of our Solar System. The Goblin is currently 2.5 times further from the Sun than Pluto, and its orbit seems to have been shaped by the theoretical ninth planet. “These distant objects are like bread crumbs leading us to Planet X,” says Scott Sheppard from Carnegie Institution for Science, who led the study.