Unpopular opinion time, Pluto being reclassified as a dwarf planet was a great thing for our understanding of the solar ...

Twenty years after Pluto became a dwarf planet, people are still fighting over its status. Experts explain why the debate ...

Twenty years after Pluto lost its planetary status, the debate continues as scientists still disagree over what defines a ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have identified a potential dwarf planet candidate, 2017 OF201, buried within ...

Since it was stripped of planetary status, Pluto’s defenders have been fighting the decision – and they’re only getting more passionate ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact stellar ember - that appears to have gobbled up an icy world akin to the ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have detected gas on the distant dwarf planet, Makemake. Credit: NASA / ESA / Southwest Research Institute / A. Parker illustration Scientists have ...

M onday, August 24 marks the 20th anniversary of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) vote to adopt a formal definition of a planet. Two decades later, the event is remembered almost exclusively ...

Pluto lost its planethood for a very specific reason. Whether or not that’s a good reason depends on who you ask.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope detected material from a Pluto-like body spiraling into a white dwarf star 260 light-years away from Earth. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Tim Pyle illustration For the ...

Pluto's demoted status as a dwarf planet turns 20 years old today and isn't even a chink in its armour when it comes to its ...

A 24-year-old observatory assistant from the Midwest discovered Pluto. Clyde Tombaugh, born in 1906 in Streator, Illinois, ...