NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto that is inserted beneath the Short Wave logo. The image combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the ...

PRAGUE, Czech Republic — Leading astronomers declared today that Pluto is no longer a planet under historic new guidelines that downsize the solar system from nine planets to eight. After a tumultuous ...

Not every talk at the Chaos Communication Congress is about hacking computers. In this outstanding and educational talk, [Michael Büker] walks us through the history of our understanding of the ...

For decades, our solar system was thought to have nine planets, with Pluto considered the smallest and farthest. But in 2006, Pluto was officially reclassified as a dwarf planet by the International ...

Nearly a century after Pluto’s discovery, astronomers are still hunting for mysterious planets beyond Neptune - including a ...

Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs signed a law making Pluto the state's official planet. That's even though an international group of scientists stripped Pluto of its planetary status back in 2006, ...

Caltech professor Mike Brown (L) and assistant professor Konstanin Batygin have been working together to investigate distant objects in our solar system for more than a year and a half. The two ...

Astronomers have discovered a brand-new world hiding out beyond Pluto. While exciting, the discovery of this new world could challenge long-standing theories of the existence of Planet Nine. In fact, ...

Earlier this year scientists presented evidence for Planet Nine, a Neptune-mass planet in an elliptical orbit 10 times farther from our Sun than Pluto. Since then theorists have puzzled over how this ...