A new study by Caltech’s Konstantin Batygin and his colleague theorizes how super-Earths are formed. Credit: Caltech/R. Hurt ...

Konstantin Batygin was the winner of the Loren Steck Award during this year's Student Achievement Awards Ceremony. See story. Some of the greatest minds in the history of science have investigated the ...

Chastised for "killing Pluto," Caltech's Mike Brown teamed up with rocker/math genius Konstantin Batygin to find a replacement for the dwarf planet. The 'Pluto killer' and the rocker: Meet the odd ...

In a couple of weeks, Caltech astronomers Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin will be staying up late over six autumn nights, scanning part of the sky via the great Subaru telescope in Hawaii.

Mike Brown (left) and Konstantin Batygin (right) finalize their first paper postulating the existence of Planet Nine in this photo from December 2015. Credit: Konstantin Batygin.

Michael E. Brown, Konstantin Batygin. Orbital Clustering in the Distant Solar System . The Astronomical Journal , 2019; 157 (2): 62 DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/aaf051 ...

The astronomers behind the study – Konstantin Batygin, a professor of planetary science at the California Institute of Technology, and Fred C. Adams, a professor of physics and astronomy at the ...

Brown and Batygin have already secured time on the Subaru telescope in Hawaii to do just that. “If these guys are right, we’re going to be looking at Planet X in 2018.” ...

"Our findings provide precise conditions that future models must match, placing strict constraints on when and how Jupiter formed," Konstantin Batygin, a professor of planetary science at the ...

The primitive version of the gas giant could have held some 8,000 Earths within it, said Konstantin Batygin, lead author of the new study. What's more, young Jupiter probably had a magnetic field ...

Batygin said this operation will take place in about a year from now. History of Planet Nine Planet Nine, also referred to as Planet 9 or Planet X, was theorized by Batygin and Mike Brown in 2015 ...