Searching for Planet 9 (2022)
• September 17th, 2022 • 0h 55min
Documentary, TV Movie
Overview
At the edge of our solar system supposedly lies an immense planet. Five to ten times the size of the Earth. Several international teams of scientists have been competing in a frantic race to detect it, in uncharted territories, far beyond Neptune. The recent discovery of several dwarf planets, with intriguing trajectories, have put astronomers on the trail of this mysterious planet. Why is this enigmatic planet so difficult to detect? What would a ninth planet teach us about our corner of the universe? Could it help us unlock some of the mysteries of our solar system?
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
The Once and Future Griffith Observatory
Released on: 2006-05-31
Documentary
Documentary about the Griffith Observatory, shown at their Leonard Nimoy Event Horizon Theater
Cosmic Fireballs
Released on: 2001-10-01
Documentary
214 million years ago a gigantic meteorite broke up and impacted Earth. 65 million years ago, the im...
Pompeii: Secrets of the Dead
Released on: 2019-11-24
Documentary
Forensic experts scan Pompeii’s victims to investigate why they didn’t escape the eruption.
What Killed the Roman Empire?
Released on: 2022-11-19
Documentary, History, TV Movie
Why did the Roman Empire, which dominated Europe and the Mediterranean for five centuries, inexorabl...
Prehistoric Astronomers
Released on: 2007-01-01
Documentary
Cave paintings and lunar calendars exist in the caves and remains of prehistoric hunters studied rec...
Easter Island Origins
Released on: 2024-02-07
Documentary
How were the giant stone heads of Rapa Nui – also known as Easter Island – carved and raised, and wh...
The Planets
Released on: 1983-01-30
Music, TV Movie
Based on the famous Gustav Holst musical suite, this musical film takes watchers on a magnificent jo...
The Hunt for Dark Matter
Released on: 2017-05-04
Documentary
CERN and the University of California-Santa Barbara are collaborating in the search for the elusive ...
Watch Out for Orcas! Danger Off Gibraltar?
Released on: 2024-02-03
Documentary
Since the summer of 2020, boats along the Atlantic coast from the Strait of Gibraltar to the Bay of ...
Le Mystère des rivières volantes d'Amazonie
Released on: 2022-11-12
Documentary
Discovered about twenty years ago, the immense masses of water vapor that fly over the Amazon, calle...
The Mystery of Chaco Canyon
Released on: 1999-01-01
Documentary, History
Chaco Canyon, located in northwest New Mexico, is perhaps the only site in the world constructed in ...
Cosmic Dawn
Released on: 2025-06-11
Documentary
For over three decades, NASA and an international team of scientists and engineers pushed the limits...
Humanzee: The Human Chimp
Released on: 2003-01-14
Documentary
Oliver is a chimpanzee who not only can walk upright, but does of his own accord. For years there ha...
The War Game
Released on: 1966-04-13
War, TV Movie
A docudrama depicting a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain. After backing the film's developmen...
The Magical World of Moss
Released on: 2023-01-21
Documentary, TV Movie
They have no roots, no seeds, no flowers, but mosses show immense survival capacities and can suspen...
Eyes on the Skies
Released on: 2008-01-01
Documentary
This movie explores the saga of the telescope over 400 years - the historical development, the scien...
The Silent Pulse of the Universe
Released on: 2021-07-24
Documentary
Part of the Almost Famous series. Jocelyn Bell was a graduate student at Cambridge in 1967 when she ...
Secrets of the Neanderthals
Released on: 2024-05-02
Documentary, Mystery, History
This documentary delves into the mysteries surrounding the Neanderthals and what their fossil record...