We all remember that dreadful day when we received the debilitating news that Pluto was no longer considered a planet. For decades, many of us grew to know Pluto as the smallest planet in our solar system and the last of the nine planets in terms of distance. However, in 2006, the International Astronomical Union went full Gretchen Wieners on it and pretty much did this:

Pluto became a dwarf planet and thus, was no longer a planet like the rest of them. It was tough and difficult to overcome this almost blasphemic news, but almost ten years later, we are standing strong and still supporting Pluto, pretending that our solar system still consists of nine planets.

But what if I told you that our solar system may have been bigger?

There is no concrete evidence of this actually happening, but scientists have theorized that there may have been five gas planets when the solar system was formed. The theory was first proposed in 2011, according to an article found on Science Daily from the University of Toronto.

Since the theory was introduced, it has long been suspected that Jupiter or Saturn could be responsible for the ejection of a fifth planet. According to Science Daily, PhD candidate Ryan Cloutier said that the evidence pointed towards Jupiter, rather than Saturn due to the orbit of their respective moons.

University of Toronto astronomers looked at the orbits of two prominent moons on Saturn and Jupiter, and concluded through computer models that Jupiter was more likely culprit.

Science Alert reports that the mystery planet may have been an ice planet, making it heavier than Jupiter or Saturn, but similar to Neptune or Uranus.

Is Jupiter the original mean girl?

Science Alert explains that the ejection could have occurred when Jupiter wanted to get closer to the Sun, like Cady with Aaron Samuels. If Jupiter moved closer to the sun from farther out in space, its movement would have derailed the orbit of other planets. This would have pushed the planet out of the solar system and into a different area.

It is likely that this ice planet wasn't wearing the required amount of pink on Wednesdays, a full four billion years before that joke would even be relevent.

As I mentioned before, there is no conclusive evidence that this actually occurred, but it gives an explanation of why our solar system is set up the way it is.

The idea that our solar system could have potentially been bigger is incredibly fascinating.Space is truly the final frontier, though. While the huge expansiveness of the galaxy is somewhat frightening, our technology is evolving to the point where answering this question may not be impossible.