Suddenly, the future looks dim for much-maligned Pluto, which is smaller than Earth's moon. Its underdog status has inspired scores of tributes, including one by New York folk singer Christine ...

The first observations of Pluto by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal dramatic phenomena on its surface, like ...

Pluto and the more distant dwarf planets fail to meet this criterion. If Pluto were to keep its planetary status, those dwarf planets would also need to be classified planets. While astronomers ...

The term has never been used by planetary scientists ... the same IAU meeting in 2006 that demoted Pluto upgraded Ceres to dwarf planet status. It was ironic that while votes were had on the ...

For Pluto TV, it’s everything. Next Monday, April 1, the free streaming service from Paramount, will be staging a rally to push for its namesake’s planetary status to be restored on its 10 ...

Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930 at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Here's how Pluto won - and lost - its planetary status.

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 ...

Pluto may have lost its status as a full-fledged planet in 2006, but that doesn't mean it's a joke of a world this April Fools' Day and the folks behind Pluto TV want to make that clear.

I'd love to hear your suggestions, so drop me a line at [email protected] with a list of the things in this industry you'd like to see eliminated as easily as Pluto lost its planetary status.

It’s a sloppy definition,” he says. His stance is that the one sticking point for those who wanted to strip Pluto of its planetary status — the “clear” orbit requirement — isn’t ...

As a result, in 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) voted to adopt new requirements for planetary status—kicking Pluto out of the club and into the newly defined category of dwarf ...