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 ...

Elon Musk, under the username "Kekius Maximus," has joined William Shatner in advocating for Pluto's reclassification as a planet. Shatner playfully suggested Musk persuade the President via executive ...

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 ...

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

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.

Astronomers find evidence of a possible ninth planet beyond Neptune, reigniting the debate about the formation of the Solar ...

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 ...

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

Upon the discovery of its existence in 1930, Pluto enjoyed decades of special status as one of the solar ... hang out with the dust and become giant planetary cores. These cold regions slow ...

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 ...