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A team of scientists wants Pluto classified as a planet again — along with dozens of similar bodies in the solar system and any found around distant stars. The call goes against a controversial ...

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine believes that Pluto should be a planet again. “I am here to tell you, as the NASA Administrator, I believe Pluto should be a planet,” he said, to applause during a ...

Which planet is the furthest from the sun? Some may think it’s Pluto, but it’s actually Neptune. Learn more about this ice ...

Pluto should be reclassified as a planet, according to a new research study. In a paper published in the journal Icarus, Philip Metzger, a planetary scientist at the University of Central Florida, ...

You know what a planet is, right? A big round thing that orbits a star. Uh, not so fast. You know what a planet is, right? A big round thing that orbits a star. Uh, not so fast. The surprisingly ...

Hey, remember Pluto? Of course you do! When most of us were brought up in school we learned that there were nine known planets in the Solar System, and Pluto was the one that hung out on the outskirts ...

Long ago, in the pre-iPhone dark ages of 2006, Pluto was rebranded from its status as a planet and downgraded to dwarf planet classification, changing high school physics class forever. Forever may be ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto that is inserted beneath the Short Wave logo. The image combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the ...

Named for the maiden snatching, shadow dwelling god of the underworld, small but mighty planet Pluto moves into Aquarius for the first time in two and a half centuries on March 23, 2023. Petit but ...

We discovered something: Pluto was different! Pluto was discovered because Neptune’s orbit showed an anomaly that indicated that there was something else out there. So they looked and eventually Clyde ...