The major planet roster has changed over the years, but Pluto is still beloved by the science community and regularly makes headlines. In July 2022, the National Aeronautics and Space ...

I n 1930 a young astronomer from Kansas, employed as an observer at Lowell Observatory in Arizona, discovered Pluto. It was ...

There was a time when Pluto was still a planet, until 2006. The International Astronomical Union created three conditions required to constitute a planet, which demoted Pluto into a dwarf planet.

Impact craters found around the Earth that were made around the same time could be linked to debris falling from a ring, a ...

Nevertheless, because it orbited the Sun like a planet, it was classified as a planet and named Pluto, after the god of outer darkness in Roman mythology. So things stood for 65 years. Although ...

Astronomers have found evidence of a process that supports an alternative, more rapid approach to planetary formation, more ...

Our ancestors noticed that among the “fixed stars”, which remained in unchanging patterns, there were five “wandering stars”, ...

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Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient ...

The search for the elusive "Planet Nine," a world shrouded in mystery and debate, may soon be resolved. Advances in ...

Pluto, a planet that used to be one of the big nine, might have oceans under its surface. Pluto was thought to be entirely frozen over 800 million years ago but a discovery of a gaseous layer ...

Perhaps the most significant of September’s shakeups is Pluto, our planet of death, renewal, karmic debts and seismic change, retrograding back into Capricorn on September 1 for the last time in ...