This paradigm shift had to do with a discovery that was made around that time. It was Eris, another Pluto-sized body also in the Kuiper Belt, and one of the largest bodies in the solar system not to ...

"This mission should be able to image the whole of Pluto. It should be phenomenal." When NASA's New Horizons spacecraft sped by Pluto in 2015, it revealed an incredible world of ice and haze carved by ...

An intrepid No Man's Sky explorer shared their unexpected discovery of what could be the real-life dwarf planet Pluto with the community, prompting amusement from the game's fans. Since releasing in ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered that a hazy sky over frozen Pluto is helping to cool the dwarf planet's atmosphere, while at the same time giving methane and other organic ...

In 2006, updated research led to Pluto being controversially demoted to dwarf planet status by the International Astronomical Union. The reasoning was that Pluto's location in the far-flung ...

Earth has a newly-discovered neighbor in the solar system. But the heavenly body – possibly a dwarf planet à la Pluto – isn't a frequent visitor. Located beyond Neptune, its extreme orbit ...

Once the quirky underdog of our solar system, Pluto held planetary status until 2006, when it got a cosmic demotion that still stings space fans. Discovered in 1930, Pluto was the ninth planet for ...

No longer a planet but not forgotten, Pluto’s colors, captured by NASA almost 10 years ago, continue to dazzle among the collection of colorful celestial objects only seen in the solar system. Since ...

An amateur astronomer discovered Pluto 95 years ago today. The former planet will complete an orbit in another 153 years. On February 18, 1930, just two weeks after his 24th birthday, Clyde Tombaugh ...

(Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated how far Pluto is from the sun. The correct number is 3.7 billion miles.) What was discovered in Flagstaff, Arizona, and killed off in Prague? If ...

Pluto, discovered in 1930, was once considered the ninth planet in our solar system. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet because it doesn't meet all the ...

Pluto is invited back into the "planets" gang! Why was he kicked out in the first place? WWE star Hulk Hogan’s cause of death revealed New videos give insight into mushroom case Woman charged with ...