{"id":917033,"date":"2026-07-02T19:21:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T00:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/2-giant-super-earths-once-orbited-near-uranus-and-neptune-messed-up-a-bunch-of-moons-then-vanished-new-study-hints\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T19:21:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T00:21:56","slug":"2-giant-super-earths-once-orbited-near-uranus-and-neptune-messed-up-a-bunch-of-moons-then-vanished-new-study-hints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/2-giant-super-earths-once-orbited-near-uranus-and-neptune-messed-up-a-bunch-of-moons-then-vanished-new-study-hints\/","title":{"rendered":"2 giant &#8216;super Earths&#8217; once orbited near Uranus and Neptune, messed up a bunch of moons, then vanished, new study hints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"elk-4d6d5a56-4cc4-4948-ac24-e9f12a5b8a62\">Something doesn\u2019t quite add up about the orbits of our <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/tag\/solar-system\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/tag\/solar-system\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/tag\/solar-system\">solar system<\/a>\u2019s eight planets and their hundreds of moons, a new study hints.<\/p>\n<p>According to the research \u2014 which compared more than 100 simulations of our cosmic neighborhood\u2019s early history \u2014 there may have once been two extra giant planets careening around the outer solar system, helping to reshape the orbits of the other planets before ultimately being kicked out into interstellar space.<\/p>\n<div data-hydrate=\"true\" id=\"slice-container-newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-93MXdN4P8gKcdbtY87A28W\">\n<section>\n<p>Sign up for the Live Science daily newsletter now<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<p>Get the world\u2019s most fascinating discoveries delivered straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p> Buffy Schildgen<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/space\/planets\/2-giant-super-earths-once-orbited-near-uranus-and-neptune-messed-up-a-bunch-of-moons-then-vanished-new-study-hints\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something doesn\u2019t quite add up about the orbits of our solar system\u2019s eight planets and their hundreds of moons, a new study hints. According to the research \u2014 which compared more than 100 simulations of our cosmic neighborhood\u2019s early history \u2014 there may have once been two extra giant planets careening around the outer solar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":917034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266,4578],"tags":[7466,6323],"class_list":["post-917033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-giant","category-super","tag-giant","tag-super"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/917034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}