For generations Pluto stood as the mythic ninth planet until a scientific revolution shattered that legacy and transformed it ...

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 ...

The year was 2015. After traveling billions and billions of miles through the Erebus, New Horizons encounters the boatman, and the somber lord of the departed. The spacecraft could have been called ...

In this except from "Space Camp," a special series from NPR science podcast Short Wave, host Regina Barber delves into Pluto's demotion from planet to dwarf planet. It's not exactly news to say that ...

The planet Neptune wobbled in its orbit around the Sun. That could only mean one thing, astronomers said: There was a ninth planet out there, somewhere, lurking in the fringes of the solar system.

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 ...

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Pluto's largest moon, Charon, likely formed through a capture event in the early, crowded Kuiper Belt. Three-body encounters ...

The planet of death is entering its five month retrograde cycle. photogeek - stock.adobe.com Gather round — we’re talking death and renewal and the backspin of the petite but potent planet Pluto, ...