Our solar system could be hiding an extra planet in its outermost reaches. It is possible that a giant planet lurks in the Oort cloud, which begins hundreds of billions of kilometres beyond Pluto and has typically been considered the domain of comets.
Most multi-planet systems, especially those with giant worlds like our own solar system, undergo what is called a dynamical instability at some point in their lifetime, wherein the planets interact gravitationally and violently swing past one another.…