Since 1930, we’ve discovered that Pluto is one of the solar system’s most fascinating worlds. It features blue skies, red snow, glaciers made of frozen nitrogen, and dunes made of frozen ...

Both Morison and Byrne agree the IAU classification has had a scientific impact, and think Pluto and similar bodies should be classified as planets. But “it’s not particularly crucial whether ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anyway, there’s been talk of reinstating the icy dwarf sphere’s official planet classification since 2015, when the New Horizons spacecraft did a Pluto flyby and sent back extremely detailed ...

Pluto was once considered a planet, but it was categorized as a dwarf planet back in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union. When this happened, Alan Stern, the principal investigator behind the ...

Pluto was relegated to dwarf planet status in 2006, just months after the spacecraft that Bowman manages, called New Horizons, began its 3 billion-mile journey to pay a visit.

Make Pluto a planet again. According to a new study published in the scientific journal Icarus, Pluto never should have been downgraded more than a decade ago. Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf pla… ...

On the 95th anniversary of its discovery, Pluto remains one of the most beloved and enigmatic worlds in our solar system, ...

Planet X or not, Pluto existed. Smaller than the Moon, but inhabiting the realm of the giant planets, it defied our notions regarding the architecture of the Solar System.