Researchers have successfully identified 316 minor planets beyond Neptune, 139 of which are completely new, in a discovery which could bring us one step closer to hunting down the mysterious Planet Nine. Using infrared and near-infrared data taken from the southern sky by the Dark Energy Survey (DES), scientists have painstakingly tracked down over 300 trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) at the far reaches of our solar system. TNOs are notoriously difficult to spot as they are so dim and so far away with little in the vicinity to illuminate them enough for us to detect. The DES was designed to study galaxies and supernovas and operated between August 2013 and January 2019, but it has proven invaluable in tracking down elusive TNOs. Pluto is actually considered a TNO, and is located at about 40 Astronomical Units (AU) from the sun (an AU is the distance from the sun to the Earth). Among this new list of TNOs were objects between 30 and 90 AUs away. Now, researchers led by graduate student